UltraVNC & SC
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Oh yes, at last I can remote control pretty much anything even if it's buried inside a remote NAT firewall.... 
that's my kind of software. 
You sorted yet? Drop me a mail if it's anything juicy!We've been using UltraVNC SC for a while after a company supplying us with software used it to access one of our machines to render support and I was really impressed by it! Highly recommended and we've branded it with our own logo and everything. As if that isn't enough, you can even set the different channels up to go to different physical locations (e.g. different offices) and you can use DynDNS for the reverse connection if your offices don't have fixed IPs or you want to connect from home! 
I use it all day everyday at the moment for access into one of our customer's networks.
Seems ok. Dunno, can't quite find a lot to scream about, I'm well used to living with both PC Anywhere and earlier versions of VNC.
One thing about PCA that I really liked was the file transfer mechanism. It seems that with PCA if I made a slight change to the code for an executable and then uploaded the whole exe (usually about 6MB) then it seemd to be able to chunk the source and destination file and only uploaded the differences. If I'd only changed a small portion of code then the whole executable seemed to uploaded in a matter of seconds rather than minutes.
I'm not sure exactly how this worked but it sure as hell speeded up the transfers. At the time, most of my deliveries were going to Perth(WA) so this feature was a real bonus. I was generally debugging issues on the remote system but making the changes to my local source code.
I've yet to try this feature with UltraVNC, my customer requires the version number to be i nthe exe filename so I don't know if it happens this way. MAybe I'll try the next round of changes using the same source and destination filename and then do the renaming after the upload.
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Seems ok. Dunno, can't quite find a lot to scream about, I'm well used to living with both PC Anywhere and earlier versions of VNC.
One thing about PCA that I really liked was the file transfer mechanism. It seems that with PCA if I made a slight change to the code for an executable and then uploaded the whole exe (usually about 6MB) then it seemd to be able to chunk the source and destination file and only uploaded the differences. If I'd only changed a small portion of code then the whole executable seemed to uploaded in a matter of seconds rather than minutes.
I'm not sure exactly how this worked but it sure as hell speeded up the transfers. At the time, most of my deliveries were going to Perth(WA) so this feature was a real bonus. I was generally debugging issues on the remote system but making the changes to my local source code.
I've yet to try this feature with UltraVNC, my customer requires the version number to be i nthe exe filename so I don't know if it happens this way. MAybe I'll try the next round of changes using the same source and destination filename and then do the renaming after the upload.
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Are you talking about UltraVNC or UltraVNC SC there? UltraVNC is a decent remote access tool, but it's the SC version that has real advantages for me since the remote session connection is initiated in reverse, meaning it bypasses most firewalls which I think is what the original poster was getting at.
roadsweeper said:
Are you talking about UltraVNC or UltraVNC SC there? UltraVNC is a decent remote access tool, but it's the SC version that has real advantages for me since the remote session connection is initiated in reverse, meaning it bypasses most firewalls which I think is what the original poster was getting at.
Not sure, so what's in an 'SC'?
Most times I am so busy just trying to get the job done that I don't have time to read the 'How Tos' or investigate all the features.
Evidently somethnig that will connect back through firewalls has got to be bonus, but certainly in my line of work it's not a requirement. 90% of our systesm have firewaall with open ports from my static IP. Elsewhere we connectect in via a VPN and then I'm allocated an address on the relevant network.
Mainly I suffer from the fact that I can't beat the physics, my Internet link is a two way satelllite conection. The latency is the killer. Ultra VNc sems not too bad in this manner, certainly better than any X-Windows client I've ever used.
But, I have to say that PCA has always worked reliably too.
Like anything to do with QoS, it's very hard to measure and difficult to quantify.
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aldi said:
BliarsGoing said:
ULTRAVNC & SC
You da man!!!
It's not just the UltraVNC, that's pretty much like RealVNC, only it seems a bit smoother and has a couple of extra bells and whistles.
The bit I like is SC (Single Click), a seperate part. It lets you bundle a branded single executable configured with all your own parameters that you can distribute via a web link or e-mail. You set everything up first (takes about half hour including learning it) and off you go.
End user clicks on it, you accept the connection and you have remote control of their machine. The best bits are:
No software installed on remote machine.
End user can be really dumb and it still works.
After use it removes itself from memory.
Doesn't require a VPN
Seems to get through corporate firewalls easily as it's client initiated.
It's free!
The only downside is it doesn't run as a service so you're scuppered with <CTRL ALT DEL> but it's a small price to pay.
I like it
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