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Title: VNC
Post by: andyhx on January 31, 2007, 12:45

HI,
Anyone got a good easy guide to setting up (free) VNC. Need to give remote assistance to son over home network cos 2 flights of stairs is 2 too many!

As i understand it I set up his /c as a VNC server and mine as a viewer and I should then be able to control his m/c.

Links / guide appreciated.

Cheers

Andy

Title: Re: VNC
Post by: sam on January 31, 2007, 12:52

what specific tool are you using?

RealVNC - http://www.realvnc.com/products/vnctool/documentation.html

I think http://mywebpages.comcast.net/SupportCD/VNCGuide.html#Distributions migth come in handy aswell.

Title: Re: VNC
Post by: andyhx on January 31, 2007, 19:17

Hi
Using Free ed of VNC, well would like to if I can get it to work.
Maybe a daft qn but will the free version allow me to remote access and control??

Andy

Title: Re: VNC
Post by: Lona on January 31, 2007, 19:22

What's VNC?

Title: Re: VNC
Post by: Sandra on February 01, 2007, 00:25

Its a similar thing to XPs built in RA Lona.

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VNC (Virtual Network Computing) - Free Remote Control software that you can use to see the desktop of a remote machine and control it with your local mouse and keyboard, just like you would do it sitting in the front of that computer. You can use VNC over LANs, WANs, Broadband ISP (Cable, DSL), and Modem Dial-up ISP. VNC is platform independent, which means you can remote control any Windows, Linux or Mac platform from any other platform. The performance will vary with the amount of networking bandwidth you have, but there are special encodings and compression to make the most out of the bandwidth available.

Title: Re: VNC
Post by: Lona on February 01, 2007, 00:39

 :thanks:

Title: Re: VNC
Post by: sam on February 01, 2007, 10:00

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Hi
Using Free ed of VNC, well would like to if I can get it to work.
Maybe a daft qn but will the free version allow me to remote access and control??

i expect so, not sure though - I only ever use mac / linux based programs to do this.... I'll try and have a read up on this later.. by free edition, could you give me more specific terms?

Title: Re: VNC
Post by: andyhx on February 01, 2007, 18:55

http://www.realvnc.com/products/free/4.1/winvncviewer.html

this is it Sam.

cheers

Title: Re: VNC
Post by: andyhx on February 02, 2007, 13:04

Thanks for people's input - now up and running.

Title: Re: VNC
Post by: sam on February 03, 2007, 00:19

oh excellent, sorry i wasnt more help... was busy teaching the lat couple of days