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I’m looking for stable and reliable software that I can use to remote log in to the users current session on both Windows 7 and Mac OS X. For Windows I’m using UltraVNC right now but it doesn’t always connect. I can ping the PC but it doesn’t always work. For Mac we have an iMac in our office that I use the “Remote Desktop” app from the app store. I like this fine except I have to use that iMac and not my normal PC.

Some features I would like the program to have are: remote viewing without the users’ knowledge, be able to type in administrator password from my PC for the remote PC, and be able to connect from PC to Mac.

Thanks in advance!

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http://www.bomgar.com/

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Teamviewer may be able to do this.

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Hey karlkeppner, Teamviewer or LogMeIn…

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LogMeIn Free or Pro is rock solid but will cannot be configured to not let the user know you have connected.

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I use teamviewer, what I like about this you can set to record your sessions. as far as I am aware it will not allow you to login without the user knowing. But you can set it up so the user does not always first need to open teamviewer for you to gain access. I am running the Teamviewer Host on my servers to connect through to them and is set to only accept connections from LAN.

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logmein free works great 100% of the time, and it’s free.

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This is for work and LogMeIn free is for noncommercial use. So that is out. Do TeamViewer and LogMeIn Pro support doing this on my LAN. I know that these have browser based options but I don’t want that. I like how UltraVNC and Remote Desktop for Mac work but they aren’t cross platform and UltraVNC isn’t cross platform compatible for the user’s current session. I can log into a Mac with UltraVNC but it gives me a separate log in prompt.

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Can you clarify the above? Are you saying that you do not want to use a Web Interface to connect to the remote systems?

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Yes, I don’t want to connect to an internet server and then have it connect back to my network. This seems counter productive because I’m now piped down to my slow internet connection vs. running over my gigabit LAN.

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cross platform

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I’ve been watching these videos on Bomgar all morning. So far I’m impressed! Thanks!

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Then LogMeIn is out of the running

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If you are a windows network internally VNC or RDP (MSTC.exe)/Remote support (MSRA.exe) MSRA works well internally on a domain environment.

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We are mainly Windows but I want the same program to support Mac cause we have 10+ Macs too.

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While not as efficient as RDP, VNC is cross platform and can I think best provide all that you want.

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The problem that I’ve found with Mac and VNC is that when you connect to a Mac it give you a completely new user session. I want it to be able to log in on top of the end user’s current session, like a screen share… I believe that is because Mac (Unix) is a multiple user environment natively and Windows 7 is a single user at a time. This might be possible if I install a ‘vnc server’ on each Mac but then I run into the same problem that I’m finding with VNC and Windows, at least UltraVNC, that most of the time it connects but some times, usually when I need it most, it can’t find the computer even if I give it the IP instead of the host name. I’m not real impressed with the reliability of VNC in the implementations that I’ve used.

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What port are you connecting to on the MACs? port 5900 or screen 0 should be the console session on the Macs if I remember by VNC foo well enough.

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5900