Only for Windows users -- NetMeeting.
NetMeeting supports Remote Desktop Sharing. Also, as a conferencing
manager, NetMeeting supplies file transfer operations. It also supplies
audio and video communication, shared whiteboards, chat room, etc., which
may or may not be useful. NetMeeting also supports sharing individual
applications, though there are some unavoidable problems with that
(graphics for regions that are underneath other windows do not exist in
Windows, so there is no way to forward those regions)
On both machines:
1. Open your control panel.
2. Choose "Add/Remove Programs".
3. Select the "Windows Setup" tab.
4. Click on the "Communications" entry, then press the "Details" button.
5. Make sure that the box next to NetMeeting is checked.
6. Press OK until the dialogs go away. If NetMeeting was not previously
checked, you will have to go through an installation procedure, which
may ask for your Windows CD. Follow instructions. I would recommend
disabling anything that wants to list you on any kind of directory
service, since you already know the address of the only machine you
want to connect to.
7. NetMeeting is probably installed in
StartMenu/Programs/Accessories/Internet Tools, or possibly under
.../Accessories/Communications.
8. On the server, run NetMeeting (this may be where you are prompted for
directory services, rather than at install time).
9. On the menu, choose Tools/Remote Desktop Sharing. The resulting wizard
will allow you to set up remote desktop sharing through NetMeeting
when NetMeeting is not running in its primary role of a video conferencing
manager.
For what it is worth, NetMeeting's remote sharing is roughly on par with,
or slightly below, VNC's ability to do so. (Which is extremely pathetic...
If RAdmin and Remote-Anything can figure out how to remote so quickly, why
can't Microsoft Engineers, inside the building with all the coders, figure
out how to do it?) However, NetMeeting is also free and supplied with all
Windows 32bit operating systems (OK, at least 95/98/ME/NT4/2000. It
probably wasn't around in NT3.51 or earlier...)
Enjoy.
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