What is VNC remote desktop?
http://live.pirillo.om/ – Sometimes it would be nice if you could access your machine through a remote connection. VNC does just that, and it’s free. VNC stands for Virtual Network Computing. This lets you access any computer that’s running VNC software from any other computer. So, Chris could have a VNC server running on OS X, while he runs the client on Windows: this lets him control is OS X machine from inside Windows, without having physical access to the Apple hardware.
Some folks in the chat room recommend Chicken of the VNC:
Chicken of the VNC is a fast, lightweight VNC client for Mac OS X. A VNC client allows one to display and interact with a remote computer screen. In other words, you can use Chicken of the VNC to interact with a remote computer as though it’s right next to you.
Chris recommends Vine Server for OS X:
Vine Server is a full featured VNC server for Mac OS X providing remote access to the GUI, keyboard and mouse using Vine Viewer or any other VNC client. Vine Server offers a rich and unique feature set among Mac OS X VNC servers including:
- Flexible port assignment for multiple VNC servers on a single computer
- System servers that run independently of user accounts
- Outstanding clipboard sharing; Exchange of rich text, images, files and applications when used with Vine Viewer
Plus, Vine Server is a full Universal Binary For Improved Intel performance and it is offered by Redstone for FREE!
And UltraVNC for the Windows platform:
UltraVNC is a powerful, easy to use and free software that can display the screen of another computer (via internet or network) on your own screen. The program allows you to use your mouse and keyboard to control the other PC remotely. It means that you can work on a remote computer, as if you were sitting in front of it, right from your current location.
VNC: it’s very cool, very useful, and very free.
As great as VNC is, it is not as secure as it could be, and it’s not recommended that you run VNC over the Internet without some kind of secure tunneling.
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3 Comments
iPOD for ALL
February 9th, 2008
at 5:15pm
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vallsack
February 9th, 2008
at 10:30pm
synergy took me about 5-10min to set up on two computers.
easy as cake and better than win2vnc
mick
April 19th, 2009
at 2:33pm
I have just got the T-Mobile G1 phone and would like to be able to access my home P.C (wni xp) from my phone to manipulate and download files from the P.c to my phone using ny phone. I have seen FTP and VNC and am confused. I have been able to use an app. To turn my phone into a. Serever and using an FTP program on my P.C access my phone from the P.C and upload and download. I want the same facility in reverse and am having trouble. I came accross a VNC app but am unsure of its full use. If someone could explain these functions and what would be my best cause of action I would be very grateful. Thank you from Mick Caulton.