Re: Trouble logging into a wireless Remote Desktop host

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From: Bill Sanderson (Bill_Sanderson_at_msn.com.plugh.org)
Date: 09/09/04 

Date: Wed, 8 Sep 2004 21:44:27 -0400

On the contrary: Firewalls are as much an issue with VNC as they are with
Remote Desktop--the two mechanisms are precisely equal in this respect. If
you haven't found this to be true, you aren't using either one through a
firewall.

VNC is unencrypted--if you use it across the Internet, your transmissions
could possibly be intercepted and viewed by others.

VNC has in the recent past been the subject of brute force scanning. Please
use strong passwords. I believe the newest incarnations--ultravnc--may make
some stronger authentication available.

I'm not knocking VNC--it's an excellent mechanism--but I sure like Remote
Desktop better, for performance, security, and privacy reasons.

"Rock" <ak1j@gmavt.net> wrote in message
news:82c801c495b7$99e85330$a301280a@phx.gbl...
> Very easy solution to your problem. FORGET REMOTE
> DESKTOP! That thing has more hoops to jump through than
> is needed. Go to http://www.realvnc.com/ and download
> the free program. This thing is incredible. My whole
> Family is online, and I am the PC guy, so I installed this
> on all of their PC's, and now I can go in and fix their
> putes from my laptop. I am running a wireless network
> with a Linksys Router. Firewalls are not an issue. Drop
> me an email if you need assistance. You simply enter an
> IP Address, a password, and the other person's desktop
> pops up on your screen. You can do ANYTHING they can do.
> It's just like sitting in THEIR CHAIR!

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