I really wish there was a VNC that provided features like Windows Remote Assistance. Just a good "Take Control" / "Release Control" option is all that is really needed.
I frequenty need to help or workwith a person on the other machine. If they ran a VNC server, I can work with them. However, the ability to "Take Control" and "Release Control" as you can in Remote Assistance is badly needed. Without it, the experience is very frustrating because I cant touch my keyboard or mouse without messing up the person on the server machine. When control is released, the server's mouse point should continue to display on the client machine. That way I can see what the other person is pointing to.
Thanks!
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Remote Assistance feature: Take Control / Release Control
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OfficialGuest
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mangotiger
give and take control
This would really help with remote colloboration (i.e., pair programming)
is a very nice idea
but until your idea was done in UltraVNC
There another solution under GPL open source and free based on UltraVNC
http://www.teamviewer.com
that do exactly you need of your request and more. be happy
if you don't want to use Dyngate (commercial service to paid bandwith and server Dynage can survive)
In order to receive an incoming TeamViewer connection without DynGate you have to open port 5900 on your firewall.
source: Teamviewer FAQ
http://www.teamviewer.com/help/faq.aspx#ports
but until your idea was done in UltraVNC
There another solution under GPL open source and free based on UltraVNC
http://www.teamviewer.com
that do exactly you need of your request and more. be happy
if you don't want to use Dyngate (commercial service to paid bandwith and server Dynage can survive)
In order to receive an incoming TeamViewer connection without DynGate you have to open port 5900 on your firewall.
source: Teamviewer FAQ
http://www.teamviewer.com/help/faq.aspx#ports
Last edited by redge on 2005-05-19 23:42, edited 1 time in total.
UltraVNC 1.0.9.6.1 (built 20110518)
OS Win: xp home + vista business + 7 home
only experienced user, not developer
OS Win: xp home + vista business + 7 home
only experienced user, not developer
I'm looking for a feature like this too.
We use UVNC in addition to videoconferences, to broadcast the pc-screen. Normaly we record the sessions to, so that the pc with the screen recording is the vnc-server for all participants and the one who talks takes control over the server.
In a conference with 4 or 5 partners there are always conflicts that to many people try control the server at the same time. To prevent this everyone who should not have control, should have turned his vnc-viewer in view-only mode. But in many cases the people forget to activate view-only. And even if they switch, they have to move the mouse to do this and in this time there are usually two users fighting for control. So for this cases it would be great to have a key-shortcut for switching to view-only mode.
The teamviewer solution looks great for the cases where the users forget to switch to view-only, but there are a few, lets say cosmetic, problems:
- The options panels for each connection take a lot of space, when you have several connections. I guess this can be disturbing in collaborative work and in our case ist would spoil the presenation a little, if there are these small windows all over the screen. I would prefer it if the options for the connected clients would be hidden in the context menue of the status icon, or would come up on a shortcut.
- The button for the view-only mode does not show the current status, same with the view-only menu item that comes up when you click on the icon of the window.
- When you have more than 2 connections it is sometime a little hard to tell who ist who only by the ip-address. It would be easier if the connections could have a name too.
We use UVNC in addition to videoconferences, to broadcast the pc-screen. Normaly we record the sessions to, so that the pc with the screen recording is the vnc-server for all participants and the one who talks takes control over the server.
In a conference with 4 or 5 partners there are always conflicts that to many people try control the server at the same time. To prevent this everyone who should not have control, should have turned his vnc-viewer in view-only mode. But in many cases the people forget to activate view-only. And even if they switch, they have to move the mouse to do this and in this time there are usually two users fighting for control. So for this cases it would be great to have a key-shortcut for switching to view-only mode.
The teamviewer solution looks great for the cases where the users forget to switch to view-only, but there are a few, lets say cosmetic, problems:
- The options panels for each connection take a lot of space, when you have several connections. I guess this can be disturbing in collaborative work and in our case ist would spoil the presenation a little, if there are these small windows all over the screen. I would prefer it if the options for the connected clients would be hidden in the context menue of the status icon, or would come up on a shortcut.
- The button for the view-only mode does not show the current status, same with the view-only menu item that comes up when you click on the icon of the window.
- When you have more than 2 connections it is sometime a little hard to tell who ist who only by the ip-address. It would be easier if the connections could have a name too.
Good hint for developers to doThe button for the view-only mode does not show the current status, same with the view-only menu item that comes up when you click on the icon of the window.
- When you have more than 2 connections it is sometime a little hard to tell who ist who only by the ip-address. It would be easier if the connections could have a name too.
UltraVNC 1.0.9.6.1 (built 20110518)
OS Win: xp home + vista business + 7 home
only experienced user, not developer
OS Win: xp home + vista business + 7 home
only experienced user, not developer
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californiajeff
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No, we use hardware videoconferencing devices. Even commercial vc-software is not as good as the hardware solutions. In my view the software solution are only suiteable for one-to-one communication, but we have large courses with 5 to 50 students, so this would not work.californiajeff wrote: I am curious. I am looking at implementing a videoconference solution my self and trying to save money. Did you guys use an open source video conferencing solution?