Charles, I have similar arrangement for my accounting/bookkeeping and some others clients what you are looking for. They are interested in remote accessing their systems and I do the demo to promote my setup/install services. I even use this to help someone on the other side of the town to build simple LAN/WAN and simple VPN networks. Works perfect.
My setup is, if they are overseas I use MSN and if they are local I use the phone, give them an URL with port address 5800+ to use in the browser. Once they hit my test VNC server I give them the password. They can start any of the program as they wish while I watch the screen. Please email me if you would like to see it. (MSN id as well) David Letchumanan www.davidatsystems.com (416) 497-0696 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Charles Ashton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, October 11, 2002 9:40 AM Subject: Remote Demos Using Standalone Java Client > Hi, > > I wondered basically if it was possible to use the Java based viewer for VNC in the following > scenario (or equivalent). > > We often have to do browser-based demos to remote clients. These usually involve a phone > conversation and having the client sign into a secure area of our website on their browser and > then talking them through moving through a sequence of pages (and trying to guess exactly > where they are!). > > Essentially we would like to be able to tell our remote client to go directly to a web address > (essentially a VNC server I guess that we'd set up) that they could view a demo on (we'd > control the demo on the VNC server here - the client would just sit and watch). > > This solution would need the following characteristics: > > 1) our client would have to be able to just go straight to a URL > which would run the java viewer as an applet in a browser (i.e. we > cannot ask the client to install the whole of WinVNC including the > Java viewer) pointing to our WinVNC server. > > 2) the WinVNC server here would have to communicate with our > remote client running the java applet over port 80 as these > are the only ways of getting behind the kind of corporate firewalls that our > clients usually have (this rules out stuff like Netmeeting etc). > > Is this possible? We have looked at a java based system that allows desktop sharing that is > hosted by Webex who also run conferencing servers but it is quite expensive with a monthly > charge so wanted to check out a few other routes. Happy to work out some commercial > arrangement with someone if the solution is of some magnitude. > > We control the firewall at this end so I'd have no problem configuring access on whatever port > at this end with the VNC server - as long as the client is connecting on port 80 ... > > Regards, > > Charles > _______________________________________________ > VNC-List mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list _______________________________________________ VNC-List mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list
