----- Original Message ----- From: "Budec" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, 2002-04-10 20:20 Subject: RE: Running VNC and PC Anywhere on one machine
(SNIP) > The ironic thing is that the company spent alot of money on PC Anywhere, but > it would keep crashing/hanging so a free program (ie. vnc) was used to fix > PC Anywhere when PC Anywhere broke horriablly. :) > Bet a nickel it was version 8. To be fair, over low bandwidth links it was much faster than VNC in those days - would also lock up like crazy in sessions sometimes, though. Here's a whole set of techniques I used for "pcAnywhere helpers" before discovering VNC - some are ridiculous: (1) Multiserver domains - we had one where there were 3 servers with pcAnywhere. I showed our database people who had to work with that site the easy trick: you log on to another server via pcAnywhere, connect to the service manager for the server that is hung, and stop/restart the PCA service. (2) We were running Post.Office on a couple of systems, which allowed you to send email to the system and have it take some action. I don't remember the implementation details, but we could do that, then wait 10-15 minutes for the Post Office account to stop and restart the service. (3) A batch file with a shortcut on the server's desktop for All Users to: net stop "pcAnywhere Host Service" & net start "pcAnywhere Host Service" so we could call and have someone with a server password locally to go over and restart it. (4) Microsoft's WebAdmin for NT4 was a (free!) tiny, solid, lightweight product which I *still* recommend to people (that version even works fine on Win2K). On 2 occasions I installed IIS 4 and WebAdmin just so I had a means of remotely connecting to stop and restart the service. --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------
