Here are some examples of how you can use VNC Central:
- you can initiate a reverse-connection from a remote vnc server to your local pc
- you can launch any application you want on multiple computers at the same time
- you can see all of your customers that are currently connected to internet, and do remote assistance whenever you want without asking them to do anything
- you can launch maintenance applications on the remote computers
You may ask yourself: there are many utilities to do server-initiated vnc connections, what makes VNC Central so special? The thing that makes vnc central so special is that it allows you to create a “virtual networkâ€, by linking vnc centrals together. You can see all the connected computers (all grouped in a nice tree) and run applications/vnc/whatever on any pc (or on multiple pcs at the same time). This makes VNC Central perfect for schools (you can have a group of computers to do all the same thing at once (for example shutdown))
Here's a VNC Central "in action" screenshot:
As you can see from the screenshot once the VNC Centrals are linked together you can see the "virtual network structure" of the connected centrals' computers. You can then right click on any of the computers showed in the list, (even many of them at once if you want!) and then select the action you want to perform, for example you can start a server-initiated ultravnc session, have a local vnc viewer to connect to the local server etc.
Also VNC central is useful in those situations where you want to avoid user intervention, because you don't want to have customers lose time or you don't want to waste time telling them every time what to do to start the remote assistance. Who hasn’t ever met those people that can’t even manage to open an email attachment? In those situations you can just install a self-executing vnc central on their pcs: every time they connect on internet that vnc central will connect on your local pc, so when they will ask you for assistance you can request a server-initiated vnc connection in seconds: just restore your local vnc central window from tray, right click their computer name, select the application you want to run and you’re done.
VNC Central is perfect for deployment on large computers: all the settings are stored in a xml file that you can include with the application, it’s very quiet since it can just sit in the tray or run in hidden mode (you can restore the main window with a special keystroke) and it also has a low memory footprint (less than 1mb when minimized).
VNC Central is freeware, you can install it where you want without restrictions, at home or at work: the important thing (as written in the license) is that vnc central and vnc central sources (or applications derived from vnc central sources) CANNOT be included with commercial applications without the author’s written permission.
In the VNC Central’s website there are vnc central binaries, sources and 2 setups:
- a plain VNC Central setup, that installs VNC Central and nothing else
- a VNC Central+UltraVNC setup, that contains ultravnc and a preconfigured vnc central to work with it: this is the perfect choice for those that want vnc central just for remote assistance and don’t want to mess with all the configuration. Just run the setup, change the incoming connections and remote requests password with one that you like, add an automatic connection from one pc to another and you’re done.
Here's VNC Central website:
http://vnccentral.sourceforge.net
If you have problems, bug reports or just questions feel free to ask on the forum on that website: it's there for you.
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