On Tue, Jan 29, 2008 at 12:10:13AM +0000, Scott C. Best wrote:

>       However. :) Vista is awful

Let's not mince words: Vista is a piece of crap. You know it, I know it,
people like the product managers at Dell know it (remember, Dell allows you
to do XP *or* Vista on many of their PCs now)... On the other hand, at my
day job, I support a fair number of Vista machines, and that's where I'm
working on deploying EchoVNC. So I need to know that EchoVNC will work with
Vista.

>       Our last-ditch solution was the "compatibility mode"
> of EchoVNC, such that non-EchoVNC Viewers *and* Servers can
> still be used in conjunction with EchoVNC. So just in case
> someone (e.g., RealVNC, which retails a commercial version)
> solves the Vista-compatibility issue, EchoVNC can still help
> establish those connections.

Well, UltraVNC came up with what I consider a good-enough workaround, which 
is pretty cool since EchoVNC is a fork of the 1.0.2 UltraVNC codebase. Go
check out that URL I gave you. What do you think? Installing both UltraVNC 
AND EchoVNC will not work. I know; last week I accidentally failed to install 
Ultra and ended up installing Echo over it, and it was a mess. (This might 
not be an issue with other VNC clients, but Echo's installer acts rather
weird on a PC with an existing Ultra install, doing things like installing
by default into \Program Files\UltraVNC.) 

I may try to get EchoVNC onto a couple workstations running Vista, over the
next week or two. Until then, all of the Vista PCs we sell get packaged with 
our custom UltraVNC Single-Click executable, which works pretty well, and
we'll continue using that program as long as we need to.

-- 
Steve Sobol, Victorville, CA     PGP:0xE3AE35ED  www.SteveSobol.com
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