fixing distant computer via remote control

[NoOp]

On 11/21/2011 01:40 AM, Colin Law wrote:
> On 21 November 2011 02:21, Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 21 November 2011 01:48, NoOp <glgxg at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
...
>>> Why would you find that necessary when vino/vinegre is already included
>>> and installed in 10.10?
>>
>> AFAIK that requires router reconfiguration. Teamviewer does not:
>> requests are proxied across TV's servers. No user list information or
>> anything else is stored there, TTBOMK, not for private users, anyway.
> 
> In addition TeamViewer has a Windows client, so if you are unfortunate
> enough to have to support users who have to use Windows then this
> route works for them also.
> 
> That is not to say that I think TeamViewer is always the best
> solution, it is just very easy as it avoids messing about with the
> router.  For those with a high level of support I use x11vnc that I
> can run remotely via ssh as I find it gives better screen quality and
> can be activated with no action on their part.
...
For Windows users I use ultravnc:
http://www.uvnc.com/
and if I need a reverse connection I use uvnc's Single Click:
http://www.uvnc.com/products/uvnc-sc.html
And it's opensource:
http://ultravnc.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/ultravnc/
UltraVNC is Free and distributed under the terms of theGNU General
Public License.