Well, you certainly were in hell for a few days but fortunately came
back. Being in the intensive care unit must have been an experience
you'd like to forget and depending of how pretty the nurses are in that
hospital, your three week stay may have been tolerable.
As for RDP, I discovered Chrome Remote Desktop a few months ago and am
very satisfied with it. The only caveat I see is that it does not allow
for file transfer. But the solution is Filezilla. I connect with my
client's computers (so far there is no limit to the number of computers
you can connect to). Filezilla as a server in my computer allows me to
send files back and forth, but from the client's computer. IOW, once
inside their computer, I connect to my own computer through FTP (any FTP
program will do it), link to my shared folder and transfer files from or
to my computer to or from the client's. It is a very simple solution
with one great advantage: both softwares are completely free.
I hope you get better every day.
Sincerely
Rafael Copquin
El 21/11/2014 5:55, Dave Crozier escribió:
Having spent a quite enjoyable weekend with Allen in Pragus (Shades of a Czech
Profox reunion with just the two of us) I have come back into work after a 2
month outage caused by a major DVT Pulmonary embolism resulting in 4 days in
the critical care unit and 3 weeks in hospital - all caused by a seemingly
innocuous calf strain. Still, I'm here to talk about it which in itself is a
miracle.... I won the Lottery the day the Consultant got to work on clearing it
up ... in fact there was a 20 minute window during which he saved my life
literally.
Anyway, I digress from the subject. During this time off I have been trying to
find a suitable Remote Desktop for use in controlling my work PC from home as I
am only working part time (some would say that I always have!!!) now that
Logmein and most of the other solutions are quite expensive or require VPN's to
be set up.
I had used Teamviewer but wanted to abide by the "fair use policy" and didn't want to abuse it
but the price is quite high for a usable solution. During my search I came accross Splashtop
"Business" which I purchased earlier in the week for a sensible price of about $80. This
allows unlimited access to any number remote machines and I can actually access my PC at work now via my
Mac, iPad or even my iPhone which actually works despite having 2 x 23" screens on the Work PC. OK,
it isn't ideal but it does work in an emergency.
You can easily distribute a runtime to customers at any time so remote support
of ad-hoc customers is easily attainable and all within the fixed price.
The system is much, much faster than Teamviewer and Logmein with no noticable
lag on responses. In fact the response time is more akin to remote controlling
a PC on a LAN using VNC and it is a truly usable proposition to work remotely.
In addition, no VPN's are required as the system routes through Splashtop's own
VPN/server so tunnelling through customer's firewalls and routers is
unnecessary.
I thoroughly recommend it to anyone looking for a remote support solution.
Oh, and the food in Prague was even better than it was last time I was there at
the Czech VFP devcon. What a shame more people couldn't have made it (AndyHC
... maybe next time eh?) and this time we got a chance to actually see the city
sights, which are amazing!
Thanks for the company Al, we must do it again next time!
Dave
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