Ian: I had to use a mac i-book for ten days over new year's to do the same thing -- monitor and work on some remote windows servers. I hadn't touched a mac in year's and the i-book belonged to my (non-techie) friend.
I installed VNC-Thing (this was mentioned a couple of notes ago in this thread). It worked very well and did not upset my friend's system in the least. He was running OS 8.6 I believe. For about US$9 we bought a Mac mouse with two buttons. My friend, it turned out, did not have an external mouse and now loves it. Right-clicking was a start-up choice in the VNC-Thing software and could be adjusted on a per session basis. I wasn't able to do quite everything I could from a Windows VNC session but I did manage to do everything I really needed to -- included right-clicking. So in sum -- VNCThing and a two button mouse was a simple solution that was non-invasive to my friend's machine. I recommend you try that. I also got some helpful and prompt support from Jonathan Morton on this list who I believe is the developer. Regards, Alexander In Toronto http://alexander.torweb.com/ At 01:40 PM 3/5/02 +0000, you wrote: >F10 upsets the Mac I'm on. >Brings up the key control panel or something. >Having very little knowledge of Macs and this being someone else's, I don't want to start upsetting things. > > >-- >Ian Cowley > > >At 13:26 05/03/2002, you wrote: >>Usually Shift+F10 will activate the context menu in Windows for the current >>item - is that any help? >> >>Nick Palmer >>IT Manager >> >> >>> -----Original Message----- >>> From: Ian Cowley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] >>> Sent: 05 March 2002 13:07 >>> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>> Subject: Right-clicks from a Mac >>> >>> >>> I'm VNCing to a Windows machine from a Mac, and can't find a >>> way of sending right-clicks. >>> >>> Can anyone enlighten me? >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Ian Cowley >>> Webmaster, Christ's College, Cambridge University >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] / 01223 500313 / 07979 474830 --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------
