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Need help from fellow IT people. Looking for Cross platform remote desktop software
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I'm looking into different remote desktop solutions. We currently use timbuktu. I've been tasked to find other remote access software that doesn't require the end user to install server type software.
What is your company using? Some Ideas would help out greatly
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"Evil is Powerless If the Good are Unafraid." -Ronald Reagan
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So you're looking for a solution that's cross-platform and is pre-installed on Windows and OS X (and linux?)? I'm not sure such a thing exists.
Your best bet is probably VNC, no install is required in OS X (the built-in remote desktop server will work), and it's an easy install for Windows and Linux.
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Originally Posted by nonhuman 
So you're looking for a solution that's cross-platform and is pre-installed on Windows and OS X (and linux?)? I'm not sure such a thing exists.
Your best bet is probably VNC, no install is required in OS X (the built-in remote desktop server will work), and it's an easy install for Windows and Linux.
Not really. I'm looking for something that I can access using a web browser on windows that would use something like Active X to allow me to access a users machine.
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"Evil is Powerless If the Good are Unafraid." -Ronald Reagan
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TB2 used to have a web plugin many years ago but they dropped it. Some flavors of VNC running on a host can be accessed via a web browser using Java.
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For OS X, use Apple Remote Desktop. I think you can use the Admin version for controlling Windoze boxes, tho I forget how.
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"…I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than
you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods,
you will understand why I dismiss yours." - Stephen F. Roberts
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VNC will work with the remote desktop administrator. We use VNC to admin our PC's through Apple Remote Desktop.
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Once you wanted revolution, now you're the institution, how's it feel to be the man?
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I second logmein, they are adding mac support shortly as well. I use this all the time for work.
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A third for logmein.com- and they have mac support now.
Works like a champ.
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Originally Posted by olePigeon
thanks for the article I'll take a look
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