I've been trying for four weeks to get it to work with NO success. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kelly F. Hickel Sent: Sunday, August 21, 2005 5:23 AM To: Dan Kegel; [email protected] Subject: RE: vnc good, but usability problems hampering adoption
http://www.gotomyvnc.com/ > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Dan Kegel > Sent: Saturday, August 20, 2005 11:36 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: vnc good, but usability problems hampering adoption > > I love VNC. I recommend it to all my friends and > relatives. I use it to remotely administer their > machines. But... I'm a network hacker, and I > find it easy to do things like figure out peoples' > IP addresses by looking at their email headers. > It turns out that's important when using VNC widely, > and this is a problem. > > People somewhat less technical than me have lots > of trouble using VNC, and I am forever having > to help them get it up and running again. > These same people have no problems using GotoMyPC, > and they tend to give up on VNC and use GotoMyPC, > paying the $5/month, just because it lets them > get work done with less hassle than VNC. > > I'm not alone in thinking VNC is hard to use; see e.g. > http://www.rashmisinha.com/archives/05_07/open-source-product.html > > So... what can be done about this? > A usability study would be a good first step. > Informally, I suspect the main problems are > > 1) Confusing setup. Too many options. > 2) Having to know the IP address of the machine you want to connect to. > 3) Firewall problems are hard to diagnose. > > I suspect that a rendezvous server that runs > on a public web site would help with some of these > issues. For example, an easy-to-install PHP-based > rendezvous server could let webmasters add a way > to start or join VNC sessions by going to their > web site, and diagnose common firewall problems. > This might be quite easy to write. Perhaps it > could even launch the VNC viewer and server modules > by using the web browser's helper app feature. > > I'd love to code this myself, but my time's pretty limited. > Is anyone else thinking along these lines already? > > 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 _______________________________________________ VNC-List mailing list [email protected] To remove yourself from the list visit: http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list _______________________________________________ VNC-List mailing list [email protected] To remove yourself from the list visit: http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list
