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: Thu, 7 Aug 2025 15:19:30 +0200 Lines: 41 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net p+GgDT833iEayle8/kuGmQsKnw6n6M4JFEP9GfbDa/uFjjEwHb Cancel-Lock: sha1:3yrjYYuwsGRd2Sgbc+0SpvmqMJY= sha256:U5cG+gtT/zQinG4osTG+MXNCWpKgKHdE1GzJZHd5LYM= 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-10:186573 On 07/08/2025 12:39, Philip Herlihy wrote: > In article , fnauta@solfon.nl says... >> >> On 04/08/2025 11:50, Philip Herlihy wrote: >>> In article , fnauta@solfon.nl says... >>> >>> >>>> 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. >>>> >>> >>> >>> All I can say is that I've installed UltraVNC on numerous machines over >>> many years and never had any problems with it. It may perhaps be that >>> it's not as clear how to set it up successfully as it might be? >>> >>> -- >>> Phil, London >> >> It wasn't difficult to set it up. >> But it did not work for the two wifi laptops. >> >> Fokke > > I see my previous "diplomatic language" missed the mark. You have > something misconfigured. If it asks for a password and you haven't set > one, try just hitting Enter. Ofcourse I did but it didn't work. > Otherwise, make sure the Windows firewall > is set to allow this app on both private and public networks. It is > (For > securer ways of operating over the Internet, rather than your LAN, see > my previous posts. > Fokke