Can I control my pc from a web page?

[franko2]

Im going on a trip and need to know if I can go the internet cafes and from a web page take control of my home pc like if I was there. Thanks!

[Cobalt]

I believe VMC (free) has this option with a java-plugin...

[franko2]

whats VMC? I put that in my search engine and I get millions of different things

[adultsonlyclub]

What Cobalt meant was VNC.
Hit me up on icq: 6776764.

Terry

[Cobalt]

Oops, sorry; all those abbreviations :p

[adultsonlyclub]

In case you dont want to contact me on icq, and in case others are wondering:
http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc/download.html

Q52 Which TCP/IP ports does VNC use?
A VNC server listens on two ports. The exact port numbers depend on the VNC display number, because a single machine may run multiple servers. The most important one is 59xx, where xx is the display number. The VNC protocol itself runs over this port. So for most PC servers, the port will be 5900, because they use display 0 by default.

In addition, VNC servers normally have a small and very restricted web server built in, which allows you to connect a browser to them and use the Java viewer. This runs on port 58xx. Note that this is the HTTP port used for downloading pages and applets, but once the applet is running it uses 59xx for VNC just like any other viewer.

So if the internet cafe restricts applet download... your screwed

An alternative:
If your machine is a win2k server and if you install terminal server and SP2, it adds a terminal activeX to get your pc with HTTP.

Terry

[X-Web]

whats wrong with netmeeting or something like that?
i personally prefer them

[Groovy]

vmc rox!

give it a try!

[X-Web]

whats wrong with netmeeting or something like that?
i personally prefer them

[adultsonlyclub]

If netmeeting is not installed on the machine at the web cafe, and franko2 does not have permission to install it, then he cant use it... unless netmeeting now comes with a brower based version?

Terry

[adultsonlyclub]

and i cant spell browSer.

[franko2]

Thanks you guys, the VNC solution looks good and since I use win2k the terminal server solution looks good also. will try both!

[gse]

pcanywhere will do it

[PARTIZAN]

https://www.gotomypc.com/