RealVNC - Remote software control FREE

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http://www.realvnc.com/

I found this neat little app, and have been using it for the past several hours on 2 of my servers at home. Password control, Port control, full GUI control over the computer you control, etc.

Very nice IMHO, and it's free :)

Has incredible comical capabilities, too. You should have seen what I did to my little sister :D

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Essential kit for remote controling an XP based game server or similar. Much faster than the micro$oft options.

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I use it at work when I need to shut down a pc that doesn't have a monitor.

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Go For VNC 3.3.7 Its The Free Full Version Under The GNU Act...

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Well this is nice and strange. RealVNC just STOPPED working on every machine in the house. Reinstalling it doesn't even do any good.

Even with every single firewall off, and every possible security device disabled, this program took a complete dump LOL.

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Thats pretty weird o.O I wonder if you have unwanted guests in your network?

If you run VNC, be sure to limit the IPs which can connect to your machines. For example, at home I usually only VNC to my servers from my laptop, so I set up the VNC servers to only accept connections from my laptops IP, and I explicitly deny the Router's IP address, and anything from an external network. I also disable Java port.

Of course, change the default listening port, this is essential for just about any service you run just to prevent casual scanning attempts.

You may want to disable any sort of VNC traffic at your router itself if you have that sort of option (some let you deny specific types of services).

Weird tho that it would suddenly stop working.

A key with RealVNC is to make sure every machine is running the same version. Also, you may want to make sure that not more than one VNC server is running per machine.

I just upgraded this weekend to the latest version (4.1.2?) on all my servers and havent had any problems yet.

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I have never opened the ports to VNC on my router. I better not have any unwanted guests :(

I've tried changing the ports around and nothing.

I'm also using 4.1.2 on each machine. I only have viewer installed on my machine with only the server installed on the UT server and only the server installed on my web server. The weird thing is, if I play around with it (as in turning it off and on several times) it will work. But after a while it stops working. If it only stopped working on 1 server, then fine. I can probably figure it out, but it stopped working on 2 machines! Everytime I try to connect, I get a connection error from VNC.

It's not my viewer because if I enable the java viewer on the servers, I still can't get into them. The ONLY thing I can think of at this point is a M$ update was installed causing problems with it.