On Sunday 02 May 2004 10:52, Mary Hawking wrote:
Go to my PC has been aroudn for a while.
Several systems for making a thin-client connection to a computer exist, and
at least one is built in to the current microsoft extravaganza.
I favour VNC, which is nicely cross-platform.
If you have to deal with a Win2k Server that has not had VNC server installed
on it (and a very high proportion of windows servers have had by techies who
know what they are doing) then using rdesktop to access its Terminal Service
is a possibility.
rdesktop, or Terminal Services client for that matter, can also access WinXP
Pro, although as usual there are assorted limitations on when connection is
possible, and ony one session is permitted on the XP machine at a time.
The standard firewall settings on general practices block the ports usually
used by VNC. I suppose some practices have had these altered, some will have
a modem to bypass all that tiresome security stuff, and others will have
tunnelled ssh or whatever.
I doubt that going via a third-party website is the best way to do it..
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Adrian Midgley (Linux desktop)
GP, Exeter
http://www.defoam.net/
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