Remote HUD

[emilianomorgia]

Chicken of the VNC, usually on my laptop. Know anything faster?

I did not want to spend money on ARD so I've used Chicken of the VNC and it can't be compared to Apple Remote Desk Top .

The only good advise I can give you, it's to buy a ARD for 299 $ / €

This is giant leap forward, it work like magic !

You don't only perfectly remote your HUD , you can even throw away you local monitor , and goes directly from GUI to Display/Projector .

Think of the cost of all that useless hardware inside the Box , 2 vga Splitters two monitors cables and all that cost at least 1000 euro per server ! With Apple Remote Desktop you've done the same thing spending 299 per 10 servers .

it might sound extreme but this is the way I'm doing .

Take a look to this http://chaldee1.gotadsl.co.uk/~richa...ead.php?t=1117

[FinnRoss]

Thanks. I agree, the clone HUD thing is very useful; use it all the time. I was just suggesting originally Cat could work similar to Hippo's remote HUD which lets you change lost of setting on the server over Hippo-Net at no extra cost. In the mean time I'll get a copy of ARD for tinkering with my remote servers.

[Mr_P]

Finn

XL have licence for ARD - I have the SN's

I have had problems in the past (Jan 07) getting ARD to work when Catalyst is in full screen mode (ie HUD). (G5's not Intels)

ARD gets its info from the Desktop GUI not from the 3D engine on the graphics card. Unless this has changed since I came across this problem - then the screen will not update correctly when Catalyst is in full screen mode. (will work fine on desktop mode) Unless I missed some major settings.....

DO CHECK BEFORE YOU COMMIT. I have had 1st hand experience of this NOT working.

I agree - its a 'smarter' way of dealing with multiple servers than kvm's - but is it doesn't work - then its not the best way!!!...

Simon

[emilianomorgia]

it doesn't work - then its not the best way!!!...

It work here , on G5 and MacPro .

Say the best way AS FAR I KNOW is ARD , in my experience work great .

I've used version 2 and 3 on PPC and Intel

Macmini coro solo
iMac g5
MacPro 2.66
Old g5
Mac Book Pro
Mac Book

All running Cat v4 and again both ARD V2 and v3 -

IMO those are enough different machines to say it work , AS FAR I KNOW .

I have had problems in the past (Jan 07) getting ARD to work when Catalyst is in full screen mode (ie HUD). (G5's not Intels)

What version of ARD SERVER ?
What version of ARD Client ?

[samsc]

I was just suggesting originally Cat could work similar to Hippo's remote HUD which lets you change lost of setting on the server over Hippo-Net at no extra cost.

for me - rule number one of product development-
-dont reinvent the wheel-

if someone has gone to all the trouble of developing something to do a job - and it does it effectively enough - dont try to duplicate the effort.

ARD does so much - and it does it so well.

the 'no extra cost' is 6 months of development time for me.

[samsc]

I did not want to spend money on ARD so I've used Chicken of the VNC and it can't be compared to Apple Remote Desk Top

i agree - the free VNC clients and servers are not worth the grief- at all.

I last tried using chicken of the VNC on radiohead when we were setting up the 10 screens - all the effort to set them up - and it didnt work with multiple monitors on same mac - and it is much slower than ARD.

Go for Apple remote desktop.