What has been used at work ( not by me ) is TeamViewer http://www.teamviewer.com/index.aspx The program is run on one, and a "number" is created and the user enters a password. The program is run on the other windows machine and a "connect to" is done and a password number entered. The second PC then has full screen access to the first, with the user on the first seeing what is happening.
-----Original Message----- From: main-bounces@lists.alug.org.uk [mailto:main-bounces@lists.alug.org.uk] On Behalf Of Mark Rogers Sent: 09 October 2008 09:45 To: ALUG - mailing list Subject: [ALUG] VNC Repeater
If I have two Windows users, one needing to use VNC to view the desktop of another through various firewalls etc, what can I set up on a publically accessible (Linux) box to allow them to connect?
Assume very little technical knowledge at each Windows end so I need to do something as simple as possible for them.
The outbound connection from the vncserver end (the desktop that needs to be "seen" by the other end) will probably need to use some common port like 80 to get through the firewall, which will be fun as all my Internet servers have web servers on them, but I'll fall off that bridge when I come to it. The viewer end is marginally more technically capable (ie they'll follow instructions more carefully) than the server end.