Does chunkVNC work for unattended access as well?

[KyferEz]

I've used Logmein extensively, and their web-based management works great for unattended access, but their instant support is too expensive, which is why I've been looking around for other options.

Now I'm sorry if below is a question that's been asked before. But I've installed countless VNC programs over the few days trying to find one that will work as I need and had gotten a little frustrated because none did what I need: good instant support And unattended access with good management features for large numbers of computers.

I've been trolling the forums the past few days and It seems ChunkVNC is the best option for one-click support, but does it also work well for unattended access?

For example, in logmein, I have over a hundred client stations. To manage them all, I have a subscription to logmein central and create groups of computers to organize them and have it save the login/username for each terminal and can customize each terminal's name so it's easy to identify.

How do you manage and identify a hundred or more terminals if using Chunk VNC?

If there's good management for unattended terminals in chunk, then I think it will be ideal. I would appreciate some insight into this.

One other thing: Has anyone tried DualDesk? How does it compare?

Thanks!

[B]

Yeah, waiting for such a solution is what keeps me coming back to this forum. It doesn't exist yet. As you probably know, installing ChunkVNC (or SCPrompt or UltraVNC itself) as a service allows it to stay "permanently" reconnecting to the repeater, solving part of the problem.

With either SCPrompt or ChunkVNC or Rat's fork of ChunkVNC you can manually get things to work the way you describe, but it's not slick. (You just keep a permanent repeater ID associated with each server.) ChunkVNC includes a copy of the UltraVNC repeater to help with this.

There are multiple efforts to improve the repeater (which is where the intelligence really needs to reside) but none are close to GoToMyPC/LogMeIn at this time.

By the way, I have no problem using LogMeIn Free to manage a dozen or so installations; I'm not sure what their maximum is... but you could always try several accounts.

[KyferEz]

Thanks,

That's about what I had figuered... I don't have a problem with logmein limiting my number of client machines, the problem is that I really want a fully integrated solution. It sort of sucks to have to use two separate systems...

It sounds like using the perl repeater on a web server and then building a PHP web module on top of it could work to do what is needed...

Where can I find some of those projects to improve the repeater?

[B]

Funny you should ask!



The best list I know is mine, at [topic=27489][/topic]

Not all of them are in active development. Possibly the most interesting are Rudi's (chief UltraVNC developer) new 2011 Repeater and Rat's modification of Karl's Perl script.

As to the PHP / web serving side of things you might want to check out Rob Platt's http://www.robplatt.com/index.php/2010/ ... -repeater/ and its PHP fork at http://phpremotesupport.com/

In fact I should probably add those to my All VNC Repeaters list.

[KyferEz]

Thanks. I'll read up on them over the next few days...

[payne technologies]

Funny you should ask!



The best list I know is mine, at [topic=27489][/topic]

Not all of them are in active development. Possibly the most interesting are Rudi's (chief UltraVNC developer) new 2011 Repeater and Rat's modification of Karl's Perl script.

As to the PHP / web serving side of things you might want to check out Rob Platt's http://www.robplatt.com/index.php/2010/ ... -repeater/ and its PHP fork at http://phpremotesupport.com/

In fact I should probably add those to my All VNC Repeaters list.

Rob Platt's link seems to be down....

[B]

You're right. It was there yesterday though. It might be a home server.

But honestly neither of those projects seems to have been touched in the last year.