VNC from PB

[JustynR]

It would be very very convenient if we could right click on a Device in the Device (or Asset Tab) and have an option in there that would either launch a new PB Remote OR start a new connection in an existing instance of PB Remote.

We can already toggle full screen - if we could go one step further and click "Connect to VNC" or something like that, it would be great!

It would defiantly make support much easier when trying to troubleshoot over the phone with a user who isn't very familiar with the system.


Thank you!

[Dennis Kuypers]

Hey,

noted! I like that.

Regards
Dennis

[florian]

+1 this

does the remote app get bundled with PB installs? or is it only bundled with the menu?

If this feature were to work, it would make sense to bundle the vnc remote with all pandora installs so that the feature doesn't break if the operator doesn't have the menu installed on their system.

This would also be really nice since now, to install the remote, you need to let the installer configure your system to automatically launch the menu at boot.

[JustynR]

Bump?

[florian]

Support Call?

[introdans]

As a workaround you can install PBmenu but disable/prevent the menu from starting with windows.

[JustynR]

introdans,
We want the exact opposite of this.


We'd like to be able to access things like the VNC client without having to use other programs to get to them... Or even if we do need other programs, just be able to launch them from PB AND have the VNC connect to the right computer right away.

Just a little time saving thing.

What Florian was saying, is that IF you're running an instance of PB that has this feature in the (hopefully) near future, it won't die or throw back an error because the Menu isn't installed... It needs to be included in the PB installer...

That's all...

[florian]

Hey Justyn,

Just thinking about this some more:

It would be kind of cool if you could take VNC out of the equation...

As fun as it is to poke at the desktop of a computer in a window on the desktop of another computer (this is sarcasm), it would be kind of cool if the sort of common operational scenarios where you'd want to VNC to client to do <something> it would be even cooler if you could just have the manager do <something> on the remote machine instead.

I'm sort of envisioning a "System Management" menu that has items in it like:

-Restart Client Process
-Reboot Client System
-Network Settings
-Change Domain
-Configure Live Inputs <----!!!!!!!!!!!!!!...!!!!!!!
-Display Settings
(probably not in this order)

If I could do this stuff without VNC, I wouldn't mind that VNC is in a separate App.