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post #21 of 35
3/21/05 at 7:17pm
very true

i searched for a crack awhile back for radmin and found one, but i could never get it to radmin to work right. i didn't spend much time so maybe you can get everything working ok
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post #22 of 35
3/21/05 at 7:37pm
Would it be possible to remotely run a program from your desktop on your laptop? Like say I want to run HL2 on my desktop through my notebook...
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post #23 of 35
3/21/05 at 7:38pm
Putty, terminal unix telnet environment. You can't control desktop, unless it come out with a newer version since i last used it a couple of years ago.
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post #24 of 35
3/21/05 at 7:39pm
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Originally Posted by mich43L
That's why I got UltraVNC as opposed to other free VNCs. Not only does it have a file transfer client built-in (although crude but simple), it by-passes windows file sharing security so you don't have to deal with window's file-protection.
I've heard of it, but haven't used it. I supposed based upon the same free source of VNC, just beefup version of it?
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post #25 of 35
3/21/05 at 7:44pm
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Originally Posted by goog
If you worried about privacy you could use a SSH shell and encrypt anything you want. Couldn't you? I don't have much experience with it? Anyone with a little more knowledge willing to comment?
Yes. I use TightVNC (free) routed through SSH when accessing my home computer from work. The best way to proceed is to first get SSH installed and running before trying to setup any VNC software. There are web pages out there dedicated you helping you get SSH set up properly. Once you can use SSH, setting up VNC (or any of it's derivatives) is pretty simple.

Oh, you can get OpenSSH as part of Cygwin.
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post #26 of 35
3/21/05 at 7:53pm
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Originally Posted by smilepak
I've heard of it, but haven't used it. I supposed based upon the same free source of VNC, just beefup version of it?
I would imagine so. TightVNC and UltraVNC (and others) are both open source project hosted on sourceforge.net.

Oh, and UltraVNC has a built-in simple chat client as well
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post #27 of 35
3/21/05 at 8:08pm
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Originally Posted by DimGR
also try putty
Putty is a remote shell client for SSH, if hes not running Linux then there is really no need to mention it.
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post #28 of 35
3/22/05 at 1:55am
Remote Desktop/Terminal Services is loads faster than any other competitor. VNC is particularly bad.

VNC seems to work on a graphical level, detecting which parts of the screen have changed and sending updates. Remote Desktop seems to work more on an OS level. I reccomend remote desktop over any other solution.

Remote desktop also supports connecting sound, serial ports, printers, and hard drives.

There are several solutions on file transfers over remote desktop. The first is to have it connect your local disks to the remote machines (Your local machine's drives show up as shared drives on the remote machine). The other solution is to use a program like AnalogX's tsdropcopy: http://www.analogx.com/contents/down...ystem/tsdc.htm
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post #29 of 35
3/22/05 at 2:09am
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Originally Posted by jtsai256
Would it be possible to remotely run a program from your desktop on your laptop? Like say I want to run HL2 on my desktop through my notebook...
Yes, but it will generally run terribly. In particular, you'll be looking at control issues caused by transmission delays and refresh rate issues (for that matter, refresh delays.) Real time games would probably be unplayable.

Or, at the least, so I would say from my experience with Terminal Services, etc.
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post #30 of 35
3/22/05 at 2:17am
Heh what you are describing is something that is well known and capable in a Mac or Linux environment, but no so capable in windows. Its called XWindows

Wont help ya much but XWindows apparently is pretty good for things like running programs across a lan, I havent used that particular feature yet but it does provide the GUI in linux, can do so on a Mac(Pretty effectively) but in windows from what I have been told the software would still have to be written to use XWindows so it is not so good. Although I wouldnthold my breath playing ANY game in this manner to be honest, it will always slow down and induce latency into the system, butdepending on how fast your connection is sometimes it might not be bad(Like the dual gigabit ethernet pipe that is going to be going between my audio workstation and server for renderfarm and doing exactly this for Adobe Audition to be running in a VM on the server, or that is the plan anyways

I wouldnt really depend on it for gaming, but it is pretty cool. There is probably something out there to allow it decently on windows, I unfortunatly havent tried on windows so I couldnt tell you exactly what, but I definitly wouldnt depend on it for gaming.

Seablade
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post #31 of 35
3/22/05 at 2:20am
PS never base opinions on the capabilities of computers on experience with MS products, youd be amazed at the amount of better stuff out there.

Seablade
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post #32 of 35
3/22/05 at 3:48am
Thread Starter 
nah, I'm not looking to use it for gaming, just to do some work without having to transfer files from one computer to the other.

thanks for the feedback all, now I gotta wait a week or so for my laptop to arrive to test some of this stuff out.
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post #33 of 35
3/22/05 at 9:56am
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Originally Posted by freakin
I'd probably use it through the internet. So www.radmin.com is nice and secure?
Yes, I use it to remotely manage my servers at work.

It is much faster than VNC too.

You can download the 30 day demo to try it and see if you like it. Try all of the different programs that were mentioned and see what you like best.
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post #34 of 35
3/22/05 at 11:48pm
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Originally Posted by seablade
Heh what you are describing is something that is well known and capable in a Mac or Linux environment, but no so capable in windows. Its called XWindows

Wont help ya much but XWindows apparently is pretty good for things like running programs across a lan, I havent used that particular feature yet but it does provide the GUI in linux, can do so on a Mac(Pretty effectively) but in windows from what I have been told the software would still have to be written to use XWindows so it is not so good. Although I wouldnthold my breath playing ANY game in this manner to be honest, it will always slow down and induce latency into the system, butdepending on how fast your connection is sometimes it might not be bad(Like the dual gigabit ethernet pipe that is going to be going between my audio workstation and server for renderfarm and doing exactly this for Adobe Audition to be running in a VM on the server, or that is the plan anyways

I wouldnt really depend on it for gaming, but it is pretty cool. There is probably something out there to allow it decently on windows, I unfortunatly havent tried on windows so I couldnt tell you exactly what, but I definitly wouldnt depend on it for gaming.

Seablade

XDMCP (XWindows over network) is uselessly slow over the internet, but amazing over a LAN. It's designed for very low latency situations.
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post #35 of 35
4/1/05 at 12:23am
Thread Starter 
Well I now have my laptop and was looking into that SSH stuff, I went to ssh.org but I'm not sure which one of the following I need. Can someone help?

SSH Tectia Connector
SSH Tectia Client
SSH Tectia Server
SSH Secure Shell for Workstations
SSH Secure Shell for Servers
SSH Secure Shell for Windows Servers
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