Franklin & Mary Beth Bowen wrote:
I agree. I am still learning how best to use VNC and a couple of things have helped me: 1) If you are connecting to other less techy people, have them install RealVNC w/o changing any options and then have them do a reverse connection to you and then you can set the options for them. Yes, this still can be challenging for some users but it does eliminate access to their router as a problem.
Reverse connection does seem to be part of the answer, but we need to make it a bit easier - we want something that is *not* challenging for *any* user! (I have friends and relatives who are so unable to deal with computers, you wouldn't believe it. The only configuration that is right for them is zero configuration, I'm afraid.)
2) EchoVNC. It sounds like this might do what you want. The real downside to this, IMHO, is that groups need to be set up by an administrator ahead of time.
Plus the server is not open source (http://echovnc.sourceforge.net/fom-serve/cache/6.html) I want to stay 100% open source. The UltraVNC developers have been doing some interesting things along these lines. They have a relay server and a NAT helper, both of which might be quite useful. They also have a way to generate special versions of the server (Ultravnc SC) that are preconfigured, don't need installation, and simply connect direct to a predefined client address! That would really make life easy: when a customer has a problem, you send them a program and have them run it, and bingo! you have control of their computer. (Come to think of it, that sounds like what hostile worm spammers do, too.) But the general lack of professionalism of the UltraVNC crew makes me hesitate about using any of their code. Anyway, I'll try playing with reverse connections and see how it goes. Thanks, Dan -- Trying to get a job as a c++ developer? See http://kegel.com/academy/getting-hired.html _______________________________________________ VNC-List mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] To remove yourself from the list visit: http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list
