Peter, It is nice to have product comparison discussions about any software
product in general, I would like to make clear my part on this
topic, first, it was never my intension to undermine in any way VNC, and
certainly not to pit one product against another, there are
configurations were VNC is superior to Microsoft Netmeeting, case in point,
I was looking for a solution to allow remote administration for
my Raptor Firewall, in earlier releases of raptor when it was still owned by
Axent before they were purchased by Symantec, remote administration required
the additional cost of licensing a remote hawk program. I attempted to use
Microsoft Netmeeting in place of remote
hawk, being that Netmeeting is integrated into the Windows platform and
compounded with Raptor's functionality of prohibiting all non
essential Windows services from running for obvious reasons I won't get into
to, Netmeeting simply would not work, so I discovered VNC
some time ago and invented my own source of remote administration on my
firewall without being held hostage by some licensing agreement, and the
flip side of this regarding Netmeeting having many positive aspects can also
be listed, too many for this email. In summary, Microsoft Netmeeting can be
configured to be used with an LDAP server for purposes for conducting
on-line conferencing, or
it can be used as an application to application connection directly, much
like PCAnywhere, in fact, Netmeeting is a separate installable
application not dependent on Internet Explorer, you can find this under
control panel, add remove programs under the communications
section of Windows. Netmeeting has it's own link libraries independent from
Internet Explorer, actually, there have been web based
companies that sell exactly what Netmeeting does, example of this would be
http://www.webex.com they rewrote the core functionality
of Netmeeting to come up with a web based on-line application collaboration
service, anyway, I will stop rambling, I just wanted to answer
some possible questions people might have had about Netmeeting and VNC.
Cheers
Glenn
Can we get some other folks views on the comparison of NetMeeting and VNC?
Any real world experiences to compare and contrast them?
If I am not mistaken, NetMeeting is part of Internet Explorer, not of
Windows xx per se.
Is NetMeeting part of the Mac IE configuration? If so, what cross-platform
(Mac controlling a PC; PC controlling a Mac) issues are there?
-----Original Message-----
From: Glenn Maks [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, July 16, 2001 2:00 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: a Question
Windows by default comes with Microsoft Netmeeting, Netmeeting has the
ability to be configured for secure access and desktop sharing,
enabling desktop sharing will give you what you are looking for, make sure
you check off the ( enable ) secure incoming calls, this way
Netmeeting will prompt you for a local login ID for the computer you wish to
connect to. I have played with both, Netmeeting and
VNC, VNC is a nice product, but Netmeeting is much more stable and faster.
It is worth your while to at least consider Netmeeting, being
that it is a bundled application inside of Windows.
-----Original Message-----
From: Payman N [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, July 16, 2001 12:31 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: a Question
Hi
I have an interal network including my laptop and PC both running
Windows2000.
I would like to be able to have remote access to my PC from my Laptop. (they
are connected to each other throu a hub using NETBUIE). How can I do that?
Shall I use IP? How?
Thanks,
Payman
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