This is true, You could always do something hokey like an rexec command or something to start it if you wanted, however I think the better solution has been named, TightVNC has a dialog box that you can hve pop up. and have the user say yes or no, you can also set it to time out, and set the default action when it times out to accept or reject, in this scenario you would want a timeout to accept the incoming connection.
Chuck Renner wrote: > > I am not sure, someone else may be able to answer your > > question, one other > > possibility may be to not run it by default, if someone wants > > you to connect > > then you could have them click an icon on their desktop to > > start the VNC server > > so that you could connect. > > This would be a good solution if the helpdesk staff will only be connecting > when the user reports a problem. At a previous employer, they used > PCAnywhere for this sort of thing, and the user had to launch it if they > wanted/needed the helpdesk to have control of their PC. > > However, if it's desired to use this for periodic desktop maintenance not > initiated by the user, then this scenario won't work... > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the line: > 'unsubscribe vnc-list' in the message BODY > See also: http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc/intouch.html > --------------------------------------------------------------------- [demime 0.97b removed an attachment of type text/x-vcard which had a name of justin.bennett.vcf] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the line: 'unsubscribe vnc-list' in the message BODY See also: http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc/intouch.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------
