how do you hide the VNC icon on the task bar?
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Michael Milette
Sent: Friday, November 23, 2001 3:47 AM
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Subject: RE: ATT, Tridia, or Tight?
Hi Erik,
You may want to ask yourself the following questions when choosing a
version of VNC:
o Do you want to hide the VNC icon on the task bar?
o Do you need to prompt the user for permission to take over their screen?
o Do you want to disable the hosts wallpaper while connected?
o Do you need high data compression (should not be an issue on a network)?
o Which operating systems will it be installed on? (you mentioned
WinNT/2000)
o Do you want to keep logs?
o Do you want commercial product tech support? (TridiaVNC only)
o Do you need encryption?
o Will you be connecting over a slow modem connection or fast network?
o Will you need to do file transfers?
o Do you want Windows NT domain authentication?
I came up with the above list of questions off the top of my head taking
into consideration what I know of WinVNC, TightVNC and TridiaVNC/Pro.
It would be nice if someone with a good knowledge of the various flavours
of VNC could put together a comprehensive product feature comparison chart.
As I am sure other have mentioned, which ever solution you choose, be sure
to test not only the product but test your method of changing/upgrading it
in the future. Another area some people have had difficulty with is
configuration and passwords. You will want to test your configuration with
various applications and ensure that users are not able to modify the
configuration and password information.
If you have a DNS, giving workstations an easy to remember name (like the
username) will allow you to take over the right users screen instead of
having to remember or lookup IP addresses. Just be sure to maintain the
list or you might end up trying to take over the screen of the wrong user
due to a PC's having been swapped by your technicians during trouble
shooting calls. This also gives you the added flexibility of allowing users
to connect to their PC at work from home should this eventually be
desireable. You would simply tell them to dial into your modem pool and
enter their user name when launching VNC.
Of course all of this applies no mater which screen takeover product you
end up using.
If you even suspect that you might eventually want to go down the remote
access route, I would suggest looking into TridiaVNC or TightVNC as these
include optimization for slow connections.
Hope some of this helps...
Michael
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>[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of erikcw
>Sent: den 21 november 2001 23:51
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>Subject: ATT, Tridia, or Tight?
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>I'm preparing to deploy VNC on my company network of approx 350 WinNT/2000
>machines. Which is the best distribution to use?
>
>Thanks!
>Erik
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