I'm looking for a straight-forward solution to allow me to remote login to various family PC's for tech support. It's just agonising trying to help family over phone/chat :| I tried a Reverse-RDP solution last night with Bitvise tunnelier but I couldn't get it to work with the S2C (client-side server-to-client port forwarding) Ideally I'd like to use VNC so that I don't need to login to a separate console and not log them out, and also ideally do so without requiring them to forward any ports on their routers. Any suggestions?
AAMMY admin. A free utility that can work wonders, and has for me. I would post a link, but I'm on an iphone and cbf to deal with more than one window on this damn tiny screen. A quick google should yield results though. Hope it works for you
teamviewer. end of story. no port forwarding, works behind proxies, firewalls. havent seen it fail me yet.
Wow they both look great, thanks guys! I had a few drinks last night before attempting various methods with tunnelier etc and went to bed in quite a foul mood =D
It was an IT admin at a customer of ours that recommended it to me, now I use it on all my siblings and parents. They know it as "the blue icon on the desktop that gets me help from my son/brother" EDIT: in fact i just finished using it now for my dad.
teamviewer is great has an iphone app too. can control any pc from your iphone makes small support stuff really easy
Used TeamViewer last night, worked a treat! However it would be nice if there was an RDP option too as it was a little slow. Then I could use windows keys like Win+R etc
Slow? What connections were you both on? I run ADSL2+ at home and connect to dad's laptop which runs on a NextG card... no issues there.
Bit weird. My dad's NextG would be no more than the DSL connection, and guaranteed to have higher latency. You can adjust the resolution and colour depth to help increase speed though. It helps a bit for me sometimes.
It's still totally usable, just slower than what I'm used to with RDP Actually with NextG he's probably getting better up speed than 256kbps
You can also use VNC in push mode. This required ports opened on your router, but remote ones don't need anything. Also means you don't need to worry about remote IP's or passwords.
yeh i used that a while back, but its messy and kind of a pain to setup, and get them to run the client etc.. plus then you only have VNC efficiency and not RDP. This teamviewer seems to be the ideal solution for me so far
