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: Wed, 6 Aug 2025 09:03:28 +0200 Lines: 49 Message-ID: References: <106r501$27lll$1@dont-email.me> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net zEcwBP/FPvfXsUJh9WQ+5AYQXsV+1SQlLlZ9WcPOXs3po4gcq1 Cancel-Lock: sha1:kFwX/cvGR0ioz5I0WwJBvmWyXZQ= sha256:TkZX/3k3f5m5FlzfqhG5a22TCtIpxZRUu0F1wmZ2ZDc= 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: <106r501$27lll$1@dont-email.me> Xref: csiph.com alt.comp.os.windows-10:186553 On 04/08/2025 22:25, Zaidy036 wrote: > On 8/4/2025 5:24 AM, Fokke Nauta wrote: >> 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 > the password is for the app not the connected PCs But I didn't set a password. Fokke