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: Sat, 9 Aug 2025 12:59:48 +0200 Lines: 30 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net awFwcz83EzKasA+JXvQOYQ62vZspuu2cwV/N+3mpLcqOY83bPA Cancel-Lock: sha1:S/kzvGWuaUMNhzFRCc+iaoBqR2A= sha256:P66AgfQBiMo1/k5QOGJ7Z8O/TyuWwBW0CXkVSchBe44= 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-10:186585 On 08/08/2025 12:44, Philip Herlihy wrote: > In article , fnauta@solfon.nl says... >> >> >> I now use TightVNC for the two local W10 pc's. It didn't work with the >> two wifi W11 laptops. >> >> > > If you're still without a solution for the W11 laptops, try running the > UVNC server on one (running as a service), and a "listening client" on > the other. On the latter, open port 5500 via your firewall, and run the > listening client. On the server, right-click the system tray icon and > pick "new connection" (forget exact words, but it's obvious) and give > the local IP address of the machine running the client. That should > work, and give you a basis to work from. If it doesn't work for you, > I'd suggest using an AI research tool like Perplexity or ChatGPT to help > you diagnose the problem. Good luck! > > > -- > Phil, London Thanks. I have scaled RealVNC down to two clients, which is much cheaper. I now use it for the laptops. Fokke