UltraVNC

yeah, if the "server" (remote) machine has "enable blank monitor at view request" box checked (as it does by default) when you click the button on the viewer that looks like a mouse it will disable input to the remote machine and blank the monitor.

I hope he didn't mean to say after...that would mean no more updates!

I don't know how possible it would be, but if we could have a program installed with the Viewer that would display all of the clients detected in the network so that you could just open it up and it displays the computers so you can double click and open the connection.

I figured there could be ...

there are some problems with remote desktop...it installs fine, but if the computer is locked (at least due to a remote desktop session) there won't be a display through VNC until someone logs into the computer. also if you connect to VNC while using remote desktop, the screen will be black until ...

BTW, this is a windows XP sp 2 computer with the VNC server installed on a windows 2000 Active Directory domain.