Comments on: Add Remote Desktop Access to Windows Vista Home Editions

By: Also a James

Also a James — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 17:28:04 +0000

VNC is indeed slow, but at FREE, it beats the heck out of “nothing at all”, which is what M$ leaves you with unless you pay more for their “higher end” versions.
For this, and the fact that VNC will run on virtually any OS (Win, Linux, OSX, BSD, etc.), I would at least give it a B+.
Yeah, it’s a shame it doesn’t have some form of built-in encryption (tunnel it through SSH if you care), or isn’t a lot faster, but how many free programs of this caliber have you released or helped develop with no pay? (I haven’t any).

By: Macca

Macca — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 16:53:32 +0000

Post sp1 / No dll hacks.
I was frustrated too that I could not remote from my laptop with vista premiun to my desktop with ultimate. I could remote the other way of course.
Last night I forwarded udp and tcp ports 3389 on my router using the desktops address and was able to remote to my desktop from my laptop using the free rdc download from microsoft.
Hope this helps someone else.

By: James

James — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 01:52:37 +0000

Yeah, but even at its best, VNC sucks compared to remote desktop. This is for a technical reason (GDI acceleration) that the VNC folks seem to completely ignore. They could make it faster, but they don’t. For this, they fail.