UltraVNC

When you ping the server, what's the response time? The demo server to me is less than 30mS. No performance issues, if less than 50.

-Scott

Thor:

Aye, that's it exactly.

-Scott

Thor: Heya. Yes, you have the idea: you create a connection Group, and give that Group a password. Anyone who knows the password can join that connection Group, and anyone in the Group can establish connections to each other. Once the connection is established, of course, there's a VNC password ...

Heyaz. The 2.10 release of EchoVNC is now available, as mentioned in the related UVNC forum [topic=3557]here[/topic].

cheers,
Scott

Just a note that the 2.10 release is now available. You can see the release notes on the Sourceforge project page.

cheers,
Scott

Jack: Heya. Sorry that you got a little confused: once you're connected to the echoServer from both sides of the connection (ie, from both the Viewer and the Server), you won't need to adjust the firewall settings at all. That's the point. :) Before you setup your own echoServer, I suggest ...

Infostrada:

Yup, thanks. All fixed!

-Scott

Heyaz. The RC10 release of UltraVNC-with-echoWare is now available. Installer is here , source is here . In this latest release, we worked on the following: 1. Uses the latest echoWare DLL, with improved latency performance 2. Improved VNC file-transfer reliability 3. Added a "See Who's Available ...

Rob: Heya; sorry for not being clear: the echoWare enhancements to UltraVNC are not (yet?) in the main 1.02 release, but in a modified release, available here . To load the echoServer information into UltraVNC: 1. Once the Server is running in the service tray, right-click on it and choose ...

Rob:

Heya. Yes, there is some addtive latency due to echoWare/echoServer, and that's what causes that delay. We're working on minimizing the latency, which you can try out by updating the echoWare DLL on both sides of the connection to this one.

I hope that helps!

-Scott

MrChris:

No hassle at all. Am eager to see what you come up with.

cheers,
Scott

MrChris: Heya. Sorry, am not seeing the bug you describe. Am doing this: 1. Install UltraVNC with echoWare, register it as a service. 2. Delete all EchoServer keys in ORL\WinVNC3 for both HKCU and HKLM. 2. Restart. 3. In the service tray, right click on UltraVNC, select echoServers. 4. Should be ...

MrChris, Sparad0x: Right, all of the data during the session goes thru the echoServer. We've made a lot of progress in keeping the additive latency to a minumum. Fortunately, VNC doesn't require a very high bandwidth connection. It will be slower than a "direct" connection, but not annoyingly so ...

Sparad0x:

Heya. Sorry for the late reply. Yes, similar to a VNC Repeater, all data between the Viewer and the Server is relayed thru the echoServer. Makes for more reliable connections.

-Scott

MrChris: EchoVNC is really just a "GUI wrapper" built around echoWare -- it helps to create connections, but pretty much leaves it up to VNC after that. So if the VNC viewer that EchoVNC "auto activates" supports screen-scaling...then it should work as requested. Alternatively, don't use EchoVNC at ...

MrChris:

Nope, it's "free" as in beer, with no time limits. It's sort of an ongoing reliability experiment.

cheers,
Scott

Heyaz. We just finished integration of the echoWare DLL with the recent UltraVNC 1.02 release: the result is EchoVNC 2.0 . You can download the installer or download the source from our FTP site. As many of you know...echoWare is the essential component of EchoVNC, allowing firewall-friendly access ...

Phil:

Sorry for the very late reply: the single-click version of EchoVNC is called EchoWinVNC; they're both part of the Remote Support System you can find here.

Hope that helps!

-Scott

Heyaz. This is an announcement of the 1.1 release of echoWinVNC, an echoWare-enabled, zero-configuration VNC Server for remote-desktop control of Windows PC's. http://www.kaboodle.org/images/ewvnc_screen.gif Source and binaries are available here . In this 1.1 release, we've improved the ...

EchoVNC combines the open-source echoWare DLL directly into the feature-rich Ultr@VNC Server and Viewer platform to create the easiest-to-use, "firewall-friendly" VNC platform available. With it, a Windows PC can be remotely accessed regardless of firewall, router or web-proxy configuration. EchoVNC ...

Redge: Heya; thanks for writing. EchoVNC is built around the echoWare DLL , the same one that Kaboodle uses. Using it, the VNC Viewer makes an outgoing connection to the loopback interface, and the VNC Server receives an incoming connection from the loopback interface. But, via the echoWare layer ...

Redge: Hello! Yes, what you describe is very similar. I believe the difference is that: with EchoVNC , the user on the "Viewer side" of the connection initiates the VNC session. With SC, it's the user on the "Server side" who initiates the connection. Sometimes one is preferred over the other ...

Sean: Heya. Yes, that's the data flow exactly. On a new connection request from the VNC Viewer side, the "outgoing" effect is achieved by the EchoServer instructing EchoWare on both sides of the connection to establish a new connection to it (same IP address, same TCP port). The echoServer then ...

Lizard:

No prob; turns out to be one of my favorite topics.

If you get a chance to kick around the software, I'd welcome any suggestions you have for its improvement.

thanks,
Scott

Lizard: Heya. Yes, an echoServer is required to connect echoWare-enabled applications (like EchoVNC and Kaboodle ) together. However, echoServer is a free-to-try shareware download . It's fully operational in the "unregistered" state, it just has time-limits on the connection. We also run a free ...

CA-Jeff: Heya. EchoVNC isn't "better" than UltraVNC -- you need the second to make the first one work. ;) That is, EchoVNC isn't its own "flavor" of VNC, it's just a way of making existing VNC installations "firewall friendly". In that sense, EchoVNC is similar to the NAT2NAT and Repeater ...

Heyaz. I'm the coordinator behind the EchoVNC project. To answer your questions: 1. Yes, any client-server or peer-to-peer application for Windows can be modified to work with echoWare. We're currently investigating putting echoWare directly into a major VNC release. 2. EchoWare doesn't use the DSM ...