On Monday 21 August 2006 01:54 pm, Harold Fuchs wrote:
> A friend of mine is a complete novice with computers. She runs Windows XP
> Home and has a broadband connection. Her ISP assigns her a (possibly)
> different IP address every time she connects.
>
> I run XP Pro/SP2, have a broadband connection and my ISP has assigned me a
> *fixed* IP address (yes, really). I'm comfortable installing and
> configuring software.
>
> Can she and I each run some VNC-based software so that when we are both
> running it we can do the following:
>
> 1. I can see her desktop
> 2. I can see her mouse movements, selections and what happens when she
> clicks on something - left, right, double click
> 3. I can take control of her mouse in such a way that she can see what I do
> 4. I can enter data from my keyboard into her computer
>
> I'm happy to run a server of some sort so that she connects to me or I'm
> happy to ask her to run a server. Asking her what her current IP address is
> might be a bit beyond her (sorry, that's not intended to be condescending).
>
> Is there some flavour of VNC which will do this? It needs to be *very*
> simple for her to install.
>
> Would I be better off using Windows Remote Assistance? Something else?
>
Well, she could get a Dynamic DNS account somewhere and run a client to update
the DDNS record automagically whenever she logs in, and then you could
connect to that machine. Or, you could use something like EchoVNC or Kaboodle
or Hamachi (www.hamachi.cc) With Hamachi, you would install that and install
VNC, then whenever she's online you could connect to her PC via Hamachi. Of
course, you'd need to make sure that Windows' firewall allows both Hamachi,
Kaboodle and VNC or EchoVNC if you choose to go that route.
John
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