Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Fokke Nauta Newsgroups: alt.comp.os.windows-10 Subject: Re: Alternative for remote desktop connection Date: Mon, 4 Aug 2025 11:24:00 +0200 Lines: 40 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net u4LEOPWDC5UdCXLded4vUAdzHZRCa5/dQ4PCw693adDAnmxvet Cancel-Lock: sha1:rOnNg+39t1bVnszhNH6XEC6M2R8= sha256:KHQj0iotrzXgZEFOiOmyhDA6Vd3qGYmDn71I/ABlwEQ= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:102.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/102.15.1 Content-Language: nl In-Reply-To: Xref: csiph.com alt.comp.os.windows-10:186523 On 03/08/2025 22:07, Philip Herlihy wrote: > In article , fnauta@solfon.nl says... > > >> I installed UltraVNC. It didn't work. It is asking for a password. Onve >> again I filled in the password for the user of the laptop but that >> didn't work. I installed a password in the server, but filling this in >> in the viewer didn't work as well. So I unstalled this as well. >> >> > > > With UltraVNC, you install the server as a service on the machine you > want to support. If you right-click the server icon (system tray) I > seem to remember there are two options to configure settings - in one of > these you can set a password. This is useful if you want to control > access to a machine where the connection is initiated from the client > application (particularly if you're traversing the Internet to do this). > Try setting up two machines on your local network: one server, one > client, and fool around with it before you try opening ports and > allowing full remote access. If you haven't set a password, try the > "null" password (just hit Enter). > > With the arrangement I described above, connections are initiated from > the server end, to a client running at my end. See my post for full > details of this. > > Note that I'd normally use Quick Assist between Windows machines (10 and > above). But non-technical friends have coped well with both Quick > Assist and my way of using UltraVNC, where I talk them through right- > clicking the server icon and entering my address. > -- > Phil, London Thanks. I have configured UltraVNC, that wasn't difficult. But it still didn't work. So I uninstalled UltraVNC. I now use TightVNC for the two local pc's. Fokke