Enhancements for VNC?

[dave w capella]

sorry for long quotes, but...

At 01:42 PM 9/7/98 , John Lines wrote:
>Damon Hoggett writes: 
>> VNC. Currently I use it in a highly mixed computing environment (Unix,
>> Linux, WinNT, Win95, Win 3.1x, DOS) and see it value in several roles;
>> 
>> Remote Admin
>> Remote control of users PC's for fault resolution
>> Training

i have been doing that (except the 3.1 & dos, of course) for several months,
now, with the existing programs.

>What I mean by this is that VNC server could be installed on the users PC,
>and if there is a support issue then they could click on its icon to start it,
>and input a password which would allow access for that one session only.

that can be done now in  user mode. if it is not installed as a service,
it will open the settings and require a password to be entered.

>The aim is to prevent lots of PCs sitting on the network with lots of people
>knowing that you can take them over by connecting with VNC and that the

almost none of my users object to the service running in the background.
but then, we support personnel are few, and well known. for those who do
object, we just don't install it as a service, but we run them through the
launch cycle once so we know they can do it once it's needed.

...dave
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