RogueHart Posted October 17, 2008 Share Posted October 17, 2008 ive recently upgraded to a new laptop. but i still use the old one for torrents and file storage. i was wondering if anyone knows of a way i can connect to the old laptop from my new one and view/control the torrents? ive got complete administrative access so it would be legal regardless of the method i used. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
X3N Posted October 17, 2008 Share Posted October 17, 2008 use vnc there are many flavors of vnc but my fave right now is ultravnc Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vector Posted October 17, 2008 Share Posted October 17, 2008 yeah im gonna go ahead and second the ultravnc suggestion. its free and it works. but theres a lot of different remote control apps avail. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RogueHart Posted October 17, 2008 Author Share Posted October 17, 2008 thanks much guys. exactly what i needed Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
El Di Pablo Posted October 17, 2008 Share Posted October 17, 2008 ive recently upgraded to a new laptop. but i still use the old one for torrents and file storage. i was wondering if anyone knows of a way i can connect to the old laptop from my new one and view/control the torrents? ive got complete administrative access so it would be legal regardless of the method i used. If these are both Windows boxes, why not use RDP? There is no reason to use a 3rd party like VNC with Windows machines... Unless they are running XP Home edition. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vector Posted October 17, 2008 Share Posted October 17, 2008 If these are both Windows boxes, why not use RDP? There is no reason to use a 3rd party like VNC with Windows machines... Unless they are running XP Home edition. ultravnc is more feature rich and has more options than Remote Desktop. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
El Di Pablo Posted October 17, 2008 Share Posted October 17, 2008 ultravnc is more feature rich and has more options than Remote Desktop. What features are you referring to? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VaKo Posted October 17, 2008 Share Posted October 17, 2008 VNC is a pile of shite on windows and I'm sure linux people only love it because they don't know about freenx. If your using windows, do it properly and stick to RDP. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
digip Posted October 17, 2008 Share Posted October 17, 2008 Don't a lot of torrent programs have web based adminsitration built in? I know uTorrent does, although I never tried to use it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RogueHart Posted October 17, 2008 Author Share Posted October 17, 2008 im already using uvnc and it works fine. i wouldnt use the online administration for the torrent because theres more than just that. right now im putting it through a workout doing photoshop from the other room. works quite well. this lets me turn the other computer into basically a seperate os+partition for the same laptop. uvnc extends that old computers uses quite a lot. since i dont have to hog the procesing power of this laptop or take up massive ammounts of storage with my ps work or music work. i can store it on there or in the case of photoshop i can make the stuff remotely then transfer it to this laptop for use and keep it on the other for a backup. you can bash uvnc as much as you want but im liking it. adds about an extra 30gigs plus seperate processing power to this laptop for me. if i can get uvnc on a usb it also allows me connection from anywhere i can access the web. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VaKo Posted October 17, 2008 Share Posted October 17, 2008 Same with rdp, except its more usable. I would recommend trying it, especially with the remote desktops mmc snap-in if your using a number of machines regularly. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dimitar Posted October 17, 2008 Share Posted October 17, 2008 I have used several types of VNC and I am yet to like one. Not to mention that in most cases you run into issues with VNC when the client and the target resolutions are different. If the laptop he is trying to remote to is a Windows machine (I suppose he is not running home edition of any kind), his best way to go is to use Remote Desktop. Even if the laptop he is connecting from is a Linux machine, he can use rdesktop to remote to the source computer. Rdesktop works perfectly as a client on any Linux. I use it every day. It is also not true that the Linux users like VNC. There is no need of VNC on Linux at all, since X11 is built into Linux. To remote from one Linux machine to another you don't need any third party stuff. And, if you want to connect to a Windows machine, you always have rdesktop for that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RogueHart Posted October 18, 2008 Author Share Posted October 18, 2008 im satisfied with uvnc. it works easily and smoothly. i use it to chat on irc and manage my server. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dimitar Posted October 18, 2008 Share Posted October 18, 2008 As long as you are happy with it... that is all that matters. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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