I recently put together a tool for allowing "all in one" remote control of various systems in an IT support environment. The basic concept is to make a single, miniature applet window that allows IT staff to quickly connect to a remote system by simply typing in an IP address - no connectoid configuration, hunting down a particular applet, etcetera ( a major plus for anyone who has ever used a mix of Citrix, Terminal Services, and pcAnywhere for large-scale remote support).
Currently the tool supports VNC, pcAnywhere, Terminal Services, and Citrix Metaframe connectivity. It should be released under a GPLish license eventually (the dependency on OEM library files is the only sticky point - I intend for the work I have done to be available in classic Linuxish fashion). The "source" is raw HTML of course. It requires IE 5.01 or higher on Win32 to run; I have no idea of behavior on anything other than NT4SP6a, Win2KSP2, and XP Professional though. The IE 5.01 requirement is due to it being an HTA file. I *believe* it might run properly under IE 4 if you are courageous enough to try it - I have notes on the page about a possible way to do it. The description, download link, and *all* the current documentation outside the "source" code itself is at the link below. As I said above and repeat on the web page, it IS beta, I bear no responsibility for any problems it may cause, you're on your own and acknowledge it by making use of this link: http://www.bittnet.com/aka/aka/rchta/ That said, it should be *very* useful to anyone who has to do a lot of mixed remote control work. I use it every day now. NOTES ON FEEDBACK AND THINGS I'M SEARCHING FOR I am particularly interested in feedback from anyone who makes heavy use of remote control tools and has comments about it. I also am on a hunt for "other" remote control clients and tools which have an ActiveX control available for them (or even a Java applet or some type of "run in a browser" functionality). In particular, an open source ActiveX telnet client or ActiveX FTP client would be handy, simply in terms of making some task automation possible. I'm even willing to try non-open "freeware" at this point since I've had such minimal luck with finding open source versions of either of the above. If someone out there is just itching to start up a random project, they ccould always take the source code to Teraterm and turn it into an ActiveX control (sounds easy to *me* - I don't have to do it)... --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the line: 'unsubscribe vnc-list' in the message BODY See also: http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc/intouch.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------
