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December 15th, 2005, 01:21 PM
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| Remote desktop similar program can anyone reccomend a similar program to remote desktop that is easy to use
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#2
December 15th, 2005, 03:44 PM
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| Investigate Chicken of the VNC. I haven't used it myself but a friend of mine was talking to me today and mentioned that he uses it. Alternative there is MS Remote Desktop Client (if you want to go Mac --> PC). And finally there is Apple Remote Desktop but this costs money... |
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December 15th, 2005, 11:22 PM
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| Chicken of the VNC uses the VNC protocol, while MS Remote Desktop for the Mac uses the RDP protocol. Very different, but both allow you to control a computer remotely. The latter is only if you want to access a Windows Terminal Server, Windows 2000/2003 Server, or Windows XP Professional computer remotely. VNC is available for various platforms.
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December 16th, 2005, 06:35 AM
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| Is there an opens source VNC client so you can remote desktop from PC --> Mac? |
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December 16th, 2005, 08:41 AM
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| Yes, use OSXvnc Server on the Mac (http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/16699) and use your favorite VNC client on the Windows machine to connect. If you don't know of any VNC clients for the Windows machine, plenty can be found with a simple search on versiontracker.com. Just look for a highly-rated client and it should work.
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