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Skriven 2005-12-09 09:48:00 av JAY EMRIE (1:123/140)
     Kommentar till en text av ALAN ZISMAN
Ärende: Re: IT D/L.
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AZ> AZ> CS> JE> www.dataapples.com

AZ> AZ> CS>Did you know that "Beyond Remote" is free for non-profit
AZ> AZ> CS>organizations?   It allows communication with church machines from
the
AZ> AZ> CS>Pastor's home and also from the other ministry personnel to the
AZ> AZ> CS>church.
AZ> AZ> CS>BTW, the same goes for individuals and schools - provided the use is
AZ> AZ> CS>for non-profit.....

AZ> AZ>I currently have the free TightVNC installed throughout my computer
lab--
AZ> AZ>slowly the kids are realizing that I can view their screens, shut down
AZ> AZ>applications, etc even if they're sitting in spots that are hard to see
AZ>from
AZ> JE> my
AZ> AZ>desk.

AZ> AZ>Are there any advantages, that you know of, for me to switch to Beyond
AZ>Remote
AZ> JE> ?
AZ> AZ>(I tend to hesitate before updating 35 setups without good reason).


AZ> JE> For the purposes you are using/needing BY would not be a decent choice.
AZ> JE> To look at/control remote computers BOTH would have to have started BY
AZ> JE> - one using the client program and the other using the server program.
AZ> JE> I can't imagine a student voluntarily doing that - can you? :-)

AZ> I'm assuming that the server could be set to start up at boot-time and run
AZ>quietly in the background... that's what I have going on with FastVNC
AZ>presently... so far, none of the amazed students have thought to connect my
AZ>viewing their computers with the little VNC icon in the system tray... which
AZ>they could easily shut down if they realized it.

Let us hope none get on this conference with their computers at home!

AZ> But I tried BR yesterday-- and while it seemed to run fine on the XP system
on
AZ>my desktop, it could not load the server component on any of the W98SE
student
AZ>systems that I tested. (It seemed to install OK but gave an obscure-looking
AZ>error message when starting up, and shut down).

All the more reason for not using it in your circumstances. Nothing I
read indicated it would not run under 98 or that it was only for XP. :-(

I sure does work ideally with XP however.

Jay
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