Sunday, September 30, 2007

Vineserver has a place

So being cursed with the Vista notebook has really put a crimp in my ability to control and fix mac clients. Remote Desktop was so good for me when I had a mac, but dropped vnc connections constantly when I would connect from a PC. Vineserver fixes all that.

It is much faster than Remote Desktop over general Internet. I use Ultra VNC on the PC, and Vineserver on the Mac. They connect beautifully and I can now be effective again. I also configure the Vine server to use a different port than VNC on Remote Desktop. That way there is no conflicts (also set vine server to start on system reboot.

Anyway, very cool. Links here:

Vine server: http://www.redstonesoftware.com/products/vine/server/index.html

UltraVNC: http://www.uvnc.com/

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