This edition speaks about a free, GPL-licensed VNC viewer that allows you to control your remote desktop. Normal users can use this for remote administration and geeks can employ this tool for providing remote customer support! This solution is available for GNU/Linux, Windows (M$) and Unix platforms.

Virtual Network Computing is an essential tool even for an ordinary user. You can use this to control / manage your remote desktop or PC, if it becomes inaccessable directly.

The developers’ released Tight VNC as an “enhanced version of VNC”. The Tight VNC supports adavnced level taks like file tranfers between clients (see the picture shown below).

This soltuon is compatible with most of other VNC viewers and servers.

Why Tight VNC?

• You should consider Tight VNC over other VNCs due to the following reasons:
• Allows file transfers ( which means that you can upload / download files from a system to / from the TightVNC Server)
• Using the DFMirage mirror driver, it can detect even slightest variations in the screen!
• You can even zoom the view of the remote desktop
• You can control the quality of the images (JPEG image ) and control the speed (if you are using it via internet)
• Gives Web browser access of the Java viewer applet
• Supports automatic SSH tunneling in Linux/Unix platform
• And , lastly, you can have two types of accounts (passwords) – one with read access and other with full control (admin) access.

You can download it from here. And you can install the video driver from here. If you have any questions, you can look at the support page or FAQ page.

Note: If you are in an M$ (Windows) platform, you may need Microsoft Html Help SDK for compiling this software. You can get the same from

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/htmlhelp/html/hwMicrosoftHTMLHelpDownloads.asp

Then you need to copy the files HtmlHelp.h and HtmlHelp.lib to

vnc_winsrc/vncviewer/
vnc_winsrc/winvnc/

Then you can use MS Visual C++ 6.0 or MS Visual C++ 2008 for compiling it