Re: remote connection from XP to 2000

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From: Sooner Al (SoonerAl_at_somewhere.net.invalid)
Date: 05/03/04


Date: Mon, 3 May 2004 14:36:12 -0500

The nice thing about UltraVNC, versus other flavors of VNC, is that it comes with an encryption
plug-in. By design VNC is not natively encrypted presenting a potential security risk if used over
the public internet. One workaround to that is to run VNC through a VPN tunnel.

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<anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message 
news:7a7701c43144$5b5375f0$a601280a@phx.gbl...
> Also, give a look at TightVNC that works for me.
>
>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>Dan wrote:
>>> I know that remote desktop won't work for controlling
> a 2000 machine
>>> from an XP machine. I am having difficulty locating
> something which
>>> does a similar job. Please point me in the right
> direction. I have
>>> heard of a VPC, but cannot find anything on that. Nor
> does my XP
>>> machine seem to have netmeeting.
>>
>>
>>Look for UltraVNC.
>>http://ultravnc.sourceforge.net/
>>
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