Useful for family IT Support

[andrewducker]

I needed to set up some stuff on my Dad's PC, and struggled to find a solution for letting me take control of his machine from a distance that wouldn't require some know-how on his behalf, or the opening of ports, etc.

And I came across Show My PC, which appears to be a version of VNC, bundled with a nice wrapper around it, plus some internet servers to bounce the signal off of, for those people that are behind NAT at both ends, and a session ID generator, to stop you having to worry about IP addresses and similar.

Worked like a dream, first time, and got me up and running within 30 seconds of downloading it.

Comments

[drdoug.livejournal.com]

Cool - will remember that. I've used Copilot before, but that costs (not much) money. It is almost absurdly easy to use, which is particularly helpful if you're dealing with a computer-phobic person on the other end.