Hi all,
I'm looking for an application that will allow 2 to 3 users to take
control of their own remote desktop on a PC running XP Pro, from what I
can see the option is changing this to business server and using
terminal services. Clients will be coming in via client VPN as they also
need to access other local resources on the remote network.
Anyone know of any other alternatives ? for this amount of users it's
almost more cost effective to get a couple of old computers and use VNC!!
Thanks
simon

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Simon wrote:
> Hi all,
> I'm looking for an application that will allow 2 to 3 users to take
> control of their own remote desktop on a PC running XP Pro, from what I
> can see the option is changing this to business server and using
> terminal services. Clients will be coming in via client VPN as they also
> need to access other local resources on the remote network.
> Anyone know of any other alternatives ? for this amount of users it's
> almost more cost effective to get a couple of old computers and use VNC!!
> Thanks
> simon
Forgot to add. The application they need to access is a windows based
access thing, so does not scale well over the wan..

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Simon wrote:
> Simon wrote:
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> Forgot to add. The application they need to access is a windows based
> access thing, so does not scale well over the wan..
Just in case anyone has any opinions, I think I have found just the
thing, winconnect server XP from thinsoftinc.com - $300 for a 3 user
license. If anyone has any input on that product it would be appreciated.
Thanks
Simon

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Simon wrote:

> Simon wrote: 
> Just in case anyone has any opinions, I think I have found just the
> thing, winconnect server XP from thinsoftinc.com - $300 for a 3 user
> license. If anyone has any input on that product it would be appreciated.
> Thanks
> Simon

I use UltraVNC over VPN's.
http://ultravnc.com/
It's free, works great.

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glgxg wrote:
> Simon wrote:
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> I use UltraVNC over VPN's.
> http://ultravnc.com/
> It's free, works great.
>
Thanks, yes a good product but it only allows you to have a single user
accessing the remote computer at a time.
simon

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Simon wrote:

 
> Thanks, yes a good product but it only allows you to have a single user
> accessing the remote computer at a time.
> simon


>control of their own remote desktop on a PC running XP Pro
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

You can have multiple instances of UltraVNC viewer & viewer sessions
running at the same time. Perhaps I'm not understanding what you are
trying to do?

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glgxg wrote:
> Simon wrote:
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>  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
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> You can have multiple instances of UltraVNC viewer & viewer sessions
> running at the same time. Perhaps I'm not understanding what you are
> trying to do?
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Hi, what I need is multiple concurrent remote users controlling a remote
desktop of their own all running on the same PC at the central site,
would ultravnc support this ?
thanks

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Simon wrote:
 
> Hi, what I need is multiple concurrent remote users controlling a remote
> desktop of their own all running on the same PC at the central site,
> would ultravnc support this ?
> thanks

I don't see why not. I use ultravnc to control multiple computers from a
single PC via VPN's. Each remote runs ultravnc server. I simply bring up
multiple ultravnc viewers - each comes up on it's own window settings.
For instance, I have multiple VPN's built to my customer's store
locations (BEFVP41's on each end). When I want to perform updates, do
security checks etc., I then open a session for each location across the
links. That way I can work easily work on and monitor all locations at
the same time.

Note: Ultravnc allows you to reassign the vnc port numbers, so I don't
use the standard 5900/5800 ports as an added security precaution.  I
don't allow web access and all VNC traffic is confined to the encrypted
VPN links. However, ultravnc has several security features built in that
you can experiment with without dedicated VPN routers.

(I also use Terminal Server for specific applications - I can use
ultravnc for this, but prefer TS for database connections etc., where I
don't want the user rooting around the server.)

What I'd recommend is that you download & give it a try to see if it
suits your needs. It's easy to install, easy to uninstall & works far
better that other commercial programs that I've tried.  Check out the
user/developer forums (links are on the site) for bugs, updates,
suggestions.

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glgxg wrote:
> Simon wrote:
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> I don't see why not. I use ultravnc to control multiple computers from a
> single PC via VPN's. Each remote runs ultravnc server. I simply bring up
> multiple ultravnc viewers - each comes up on it's own window settings.
> For instance, I have multiple VPN's built to my customer's store
> locations (BEFVP41's on each end). When I want to perform updates, do
> security checks etc., I then open a session for each location across the
> links. That way I can work easily work on and monitor all locations at
> the same time.
>
> Note: Ultravnc allows you to reassign the vnc port numbers, so I don't
> use the standard 5900/5800 ports as an added security precaution.  I
> don't allow web access and all VNC traffic is confined to the encrypted
> VPN links. However, ultravnc has several security features built in that
> you can experiment with without dedicated VPN routers.
>
> (I also use Terminal Server for specific applications - I can use
> ultravnc for this, but prefer TS for database connections etc., where I
> don't want the user rooting around the server.)
>
> What I'd recommend is that you download & give it a try to see if it
> suits your needs. It's easy to install, easy to uninstall & works far
> better that other commercial programs that I've tried.  Check out the
> user/developer forums (links are on the site) for bugs, updates,
> suggestions.
great thanks, I'll give it a go 

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"glgxg" <glgxg@mfire.com.invalid> wrote in message
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> Simon wrote:
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> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
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> You can have multiple instances of UltraVNC viewer & viewer sessions
> running at the same time. Perhaps I'm not understanding what you are
> trying to do?
>

Does UltraVNC allow you to have concurrent connections to one machine from
multiple machines?  If so, are these concurrent connections controlling the
same "session" on the PC or are they logged in individually, a la Terminal
Services?  This is what Simon is looking to do and I wouldn't mind finding a
free solution to set it up on my network as well.  I use RealVNC right now,
but it doesn't support the "terminal services" concurrency ... at least, not
from what I can tell.  

Undrhil

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