[megasad]

I will soon have a PC running Windows 2000 and an eMac running Panther.

The eMac has a huge honking monitor built in to it.

How can I make the PC use this monitor?

Will some Remote Desktop tomfoolery allow me to use the eMac screen, keyboard and mouse to control the PC, as if it were a remote machine?

How will I connect the PC to the eMac?

If I use the ethernet port, how will I use broadband?

What software should I use?

Is this even possible?

Thanks,
Simon

[SMacTech]

I use M$ Remote Desktop connection to connect to any XP box on my LAN, so I can call the user and tell them I am going to admin their computer without ever leaving my desk.
Use ethernet, obviously with a router switch/hub to connect them all together and share your broadband connection.

[Brass]

Or you could use VNC.

If you have two monitors, (ie one on your PC an one on your Mac), you could run VNC server on your PC, and osx2vnc on your Mac to control both machines with the same keyboard and mouse. Move the mouse off the side of one screen and it comes onto the other screen, and visa versa.

I use VNC and x2vnc to control a Solaris, a Mac OS X and a Windows 2000 machine all with their own monitors, but all using just the Solaris machine's keyboard/mouse. I can run the mouse pointer right across three screens, each with a different OS. Very cool!

[omegahack]

ecuse the dumb question but what is VNC?

[Brass]

Originally posted by omegahack:
ecuse the dumb question but what is VNC?

VNC: http://www.realvnc.com/

x2vnc: http://www.hubbe.net/~hubbe/x2vnc.html

VNC (Virtual Network Computing) is an open protocol for remote control of another computer. Because it is open, server and client versions are available for almost any platform (including Amiga, BeOS, Mac, Windows, Unix-various).

It is also free.

It's main advantage over it's competitors is that due to being an open protocol, it is available on virtually any platform, and can be extended to other uses (eg, x2vnc). It's main disadvantage against other remote control programs is that due to it's being cross-platform, it sends screen data as bitmap graphics which can be slow over a modem connection. But anything better than a 56k modem, and it works great.

[smeger]

Here's a recent MacOSXHints discussion about VNC (disclaimer, I'm project manager for the client they're talking about).