Running programs remotely
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2008-04-07, 10:55 PM
My wife works at a small business that wants to run a particular piece of software on remote machines but only install it on one desktop and have the other's run it from there. VNC is pretty slow over windows. They aren't going to buy a windows server.
GoToMyPC? Any other ideas for a client only network?
2008-04-07, 11:17 PM
pastro Wrote:My wife works at a small business that wants to run a particular piece of software on remote machines but only install it on one desktop and have the other's run it from there. VNC is pretty slow over windows. They aren't going to buy a windows server.Simple question but possibly a complex solution... 1. Are there going to be several users using the application at any one time? 2. Is the software designed for running multiple instances on one machine? 3. Does the software licence allow for single machine / multi-user access? 4. Does the host machine have sufficient resources to make multiple instance use efficient? I'm just wondering why the company don't want to install it on all desktops... Cheers, Brian
2008-04-08, 04:44 AM
bgowland Wrote:Simple question but possibly a complex solution... It's expensive for a small business. Around 7k per seat. Only one person at a time is going to use it, but they don't want to have to sit at the machine that will have it loaded. The machine is a decent dell mini tower with 2Gig of mem, 500G harddrive, dual core Pentium.
2008-04-08, 05:26 AM
If only one person will be using it at a time, I still suggest RDP.
2008-04-08, 05:34 AM
whurlston Wrote:If only one person will be using it at a time, I still suggest RDP. Ok I'll give it a shot. VNC is too slow over windows so I thought the remote desktop would be too slow.
2008-04-08, 06:17 AM
I remote desktop from the States to Canada and I'm pretty happy with the performance. You can adjust the settings of the "Desktop Experience" to give you better performance for slower connections. If you are going through the internet and your router does not support forwarding of one port number to another (external port 5000 -> internal port 2000 on ip 192.168.1.50) then you can adjust a registry setting to change on the "server" the default RDP port for security.
Code: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Terminal Server\WinStations\RDP-Tcp\PortNumber
2008-04-08, 07:19 AM
pastro Wrote:Ok I'll give it a shot. VNC is too slow over windows so I thought the remote desktop would be too slow. depends upon what the programm does. if it's something with graphics and/or videos, both VNC & RDP will be slow. it its just a stupid UI (masks & a lot of fields & boxes, etc...) RDP will be like local access & will even work great over modem sub Wrote:Yep, what he said. curiosity killed the cat 
2008-04-08, 08:18 AM
pastro Wrote:It's expensive for a small business. Around 7k per seat.Tell me what it does and what they need it for - I'll write them an unlimited licence version of whatever for 5K. Quote:Only one person at a time is going to use it, but they don't want to have to sit at the machine that will have it loaded.Yeah - but read the small print. As an ex sysadmin, I've read licence agreements that say the equivalent of 'Under no way, shape or form may this software be accessible over a remote connection blah blah'. It's a serious issue - if these people are charging 7K per licence, make sure they're not going to get upset if they find out that it's being spread around with a remote connection setup. In the old days before VNC and RDP, licence agreements would say '1 licence, 1 machine' etc. and you could get away with remote connections. Software companies got wise to the possibilities of remote desktops and started building in exclusions as a result. Just a thought. Cheers, Brian
2008-04-08, 10:11 AM
I found NetOp remote to appear much faster than VNC when I used it at college for remote helpdesk. Not a freebie though. http://www.netop.com/netop-1819.htm
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