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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: 100Coogn on September 20, 2012, 03:11:13 PM
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Man am I behind the times. :lol
I had no idea there was technology like this. The ability to access and control a computer with your cell phone.
This is one that I'm toying with at the moment. TeamViewer 7 (http://www.teamviewer.com/en/download/currentversion.aspx)
Completely free, for noncommercial use.
What will they think of next?
Coogan :old:
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Yup, I've been usign Teamviewer for my personal RD needs for like 6 or 7 years now, always been a great app (I like TV6 personaly, TV7 likes to be finiky at times but they introduced their mobile app with TV7 so... ).
Windows features its own built in RD application but I don't think it's as easy to use or as free/accesible for even non-comm use as TV is (and who really loves MS anyways, lol).
For my office/commercial needs I use Tunnelier as all I'm doing is data/file management and transfers and don't need a GUI or "eye over the shoulder" view of the PC, and this greatly increases data tranfer rates that otherwise get hindered by the streaming GUI feed of TV.
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Teamviewer is great for helping your friend with his computer when you're 700+ miles away.
You do have to be careful who you let on to your computer tho. I let a friend access my desktop once...
He then proceeded to make me RickRoll myself. :bhead :rofl :rofl
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Teamviewer is fine if you don't mind a whopping great tunnel into your network to servers in germany.
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I use Citrix Gotomeeting myself. It's more convenient than Teamviewer as it installs automatically through browsers. Teamviewer is annoying with its version limitations, if your client has a newer version installed than what you use, teamviewer refuses to work with the older version. Then you're going to either pay 1500 bucks for a new version for nothing, break the EULA or use something else. I use something else.
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Remote Desktop is one of the rare things I'll give MS credit for getting right, I use it every day. Shame the remote user only has the option of a blank screen but it works so much better than VNC for remote administration.
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Remote Desktop is one of the rare things I'll give MS credit for getting right, I use it every day. Shame the remote user only has the option of a blank screen but it works so much better than VNC for remote administration.
How come? What benefit do you get compared to vnc?
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reliability, responsiveness over a slow VPN, ease of install and setup ... :aok
edit: I cant remember, can a VNC session log into a machine? or does it just screen share an already logged-in session? :headscratch:
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reliability, responsiveness over a slow VPN, ease of install and setup ... :aok
edit: I cant remember, can a VNC session log into a machine? or does it just screen share an already logged-in session? :headscratch:
Ah right, you're talking about windows machines. Yeah, VNC is not as functional there.
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Teamviewer is fine if you don't mind a whopping great tunnel into your network to servers in germany.
I'm not worried about it, you should see how many times a day my office server gets randomly pinged by servers in Russia or East Europe (and it's not listed anywhere and our IP usually changes every 2-3 months), they then procceed to randomly access a wide variety of ports before they get shut out for too many failed attempts (or too many too fast).
Imho, they know about the door already or one of their snoopers will shortly, it's all about the lock (and boobytraps) you have on the door and behind it that really matters.
And as I said, microsoft comes with a similar RD program these days (I think starting with XP it was standard issue for a while and may still be, but I'm not a windows guru), doesn't matter if you have TV or not, they get into your door they can control your PC.
Your computer is at risk as soon as you plug it into (or wirelessly connect) a network/internet, it really is that simple.
I use Citrix Gotomeeting myself. It's more convenient than Teamviewer as it installs automatically through browsers. Teamviewer is annoying with its version limitations, if your client has a newer version installed than what you use, teamviewer refuses to work with the older version. Then you're going to either pay 1500 bucks for a new version for nothing, break the EULA or use something else. I use something else.
This is why I love TV6 and hate TV7 (and still preffer using TV6), TV6 was a lot more tollerant of connecting with older or other TV6 clients. It would try to make due and it usually would work. Also TV6 didn't like resetting passwords everytime a neighborhood dog lifts its leg to one of our distribution boxes.
Find an old version of TV6 and downgrade imho if you can.
And yeah, windows actually did it right with their RD - lightweight, basic, simple, reliable.... why can't their OS guys get it? lol
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And yeah, windows actually did it right with their RD - lightweight, basic, simple, reliable.... why can't their OS guys get it? lol
exactly :aok
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Babalonian, I just tried teamviewer 6, but I don't really notice a difference.
I've also been checking out Pocketcloud. Really haven't used it enough to give it a fair review. It does seem to be a bit laggy though. This is using a 3g connection.
Coogan
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I dunno if the program I used to use is still around, but I used radmin. It was priced affordably for personal use, $20 something dollars and worked great for my purposes. If anyone is still looking for one, you might check and see if it's still around.
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reliability, responsiveness over a slow VPN, ease of install and setup ... :aok
edit: I cant remember, can a VNC session log into a machine? or does it just screen share an already logged-in session? :headscratch:
VNC is also about as secure as a wet paper bag.