"The wonder of you" VNC+rdesktop+diablo = fun!
 

Nothing new, just amazing on my investment - the Nokia 770!

I have 50G music on my living room PC and hooked up with a rack stereo. And I also have a PC hooked up to another rack stereo in my bedroom and I am lying in bed and too lazy to get up to deal with the stereo and I dont want to duplicate the 50G music on the 2nd PC to waste disk space.

I lie in bed, using my wonderful 770, VNC into my bedroom PC. From my bedroom PC then rdesktop to my living room PC to assess my 50G music. It is so seamlessly that I just cannot help but marvel with the Elvis hit, "The Wonder of You".

BTW, just for fun, thru the living room PC, which is now 770 VNC bedroom PC rdesktop to livingroom PC, I further VNC back to a notebook next to me, to copy URLs among the 3 PCs, it is kind of cumblesome and slow, but hey, it still works. I am thinking, would the whole thing crash if I VNC back to my 770, would it NOT :)?

Oh sure, I can do things one at a time, but just kind of fun to see the it may be able to chase it own tail!

coming weekend, I will jot down more details..... "The Wonder Of You"

It does not count without pic, here they are, see the rdesktop and VNCviewer box on the same screen from my tiny but powerful 770!


Edit: step by step guide on thread #14

bun
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770 2008He MMC boot w winPC running vista/xp/MCE

Re: "The wonder of you" VNC+rdesktop+diablo = fun!
 

When I'm done with playing, I just kind of closing down the windows, everything ran fine, except the winVista, it crashed, HA! the maemo, winXP, winMCE ran well, win Vista came to its knee. Yike!

I ended up getting out of bed to reboot the dumb Vista :(

bun

Re: "The wonder of you" VNC+rdesktop+diablo = fun!
 

You are crazy !
:D

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One of these days i will learn command line and get vnc on my N800.

Re: "The wonder of you" VNC+rdesktop+diablo = fun!
 

Just cause the n900 is coming out doesn't mean any of the older tablets are now useless. :D Plenty of things you can still use them for around the home.

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Oh no. You do not need command line command to do VNC, step by step instruction. Post if question.

@Laughing Man: You read the subtle message. I guess the message is NOT that subtle then. Lets go out and have a beer :)

And I forget to make it clear on the 1st posting, the maemo/770 has NOT hiccup whatsoever during the whole 'tail chasing' exercise, no hanging, no wifi dropping, absolutely no nothing. I just cannot stop marvel at this little tablet, even comes with a 4.1 inch screen!

bun

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NC, USA being North Carolina?

Haha if your in the Charlotte (though Charlotte is big) I am there two weeks of the year. ;)

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Keepin it old school!! Kudos

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Where do you place the password on VNC? When i open it up there is only a box for the vnc server number?:confused:

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You will be prompted for the password only if the vnc server has been setup to allow authenticated connections.

From the steps above to set it up.
see step 4 (on VNC server)
4. On your PC, right click the Ultra VNC icon in the menu bar and select Admin Properties. In the Authentication area, enter a password.

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Hey, I was wondering what theme you are using on your N770? It seems pretty cool. BTW I have stopped using Hack OS because of the crashing, need something stable for VNC and CarMan.

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That is the 2008He skin, Chinook.

bun

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OK

Thanks

Re: "The wonder of you" VNC+rdesktop+diablo = fun!
 

Step by step to setup rdesktop, the most basic way, once you get it working, you can then go fancy :-)

On your win PC:
rdesktop works only with
- win media center edition
- win XP pro
- vista pro? home edition wont do it
- win 7, dont know
Right click on My Computer>Properties>Remote
1st block is Remote Assistance; 2nd block is Remote Desktop. You window does not have remote desktop
if you do not see the 2nd block. Some people has tweaked it and made it work though. 1st pic

Setup user:
- Check the "Allow users to connect remotely to this computer
- Click "Select Remote Users..." > Add user ; user must pass word protected

port forward:
(only for Linksys WRT54GS, other router should be similar)
Start>Programs>Accessories>Command Prompt>ipconfig
IP Address 192.168.1.xyz
This is your computer local ip address. This is the port you would like to forward to
when you connect from outside your house, say your office, you would like
this computer wake up, this is your local ip address.

on your browser, go web site "192.168.1.1" to your router admin menu.
Type in your User Name/password to gain access or
User Name Admin (admin?)
password "blank"
If you dont know, and would like to proceed, press the reset button at the back of the router,
it would reset everything to factory, including your own router settings. (see pic)

Setup>Applications & Gaming
Put in the followings
Applications rdesktop
Start 3389
End 3389
Protocol Both
IP Address 192.168.1.xyz
Enable check
the xyz is your local ip address, the one you got from Command prompt>ipconfig>ip address
click Save Settings "Settings are successful." (see pic)

What you have done, is to tell whoever knock at your network, will wake up only
the computer with the ip address 192.168.1.xyz. Make sure you have a pair of strong/secure username/password,
otherwise, anybody in the world will be able to get into your computer.

Now you need your street ip address, the ip address that identifies your router. On your browser, go website
"whatismyip.com", this will give you your street ip address. (See pic) Again, there is a local ip address, your computer ip address within
your network, the 192.168.1.xyz; and there is a street ip address, and it is different.
You are done with your winPC for now

now you are working on your tablet (mine is N810)
dl and install pyRDesktop 1.5
run pyRDesktop:
Name: anything
Host: your street 192.168.1.xyz
Username: the user you added to allow connect remotely
Password: password you set to log into your winPC
Domain: (leave it blank)
Disk Sharing..... leave it all blank for now, you can play with it later

click Connect, you should magically connect to your computer via rdesktop assume you are
in your house, your own network.

Once succeeded, you then replace Host:192.168.1.xyz with your street ip address, you
should now be able to connect too while you are still in your house or your own network.

Now here comes the challenge, take your tablet to your office, i.e., you are now
away from your own network, the same setup should still allow you to connect to your
computer via internet, you must use your street ip address, not your local ip address.
If not, look into your firewall, it may block your connection.

This is a very down to earth connection. Once you able to make connections, you can then
change parameters to increase securities. First is to set a good secure user/password
pair; second is to change the listening port away from 3389, the default, using parameter :15

VNC is quite similar, maybe I will jot it down..... next weekend? Or whoever feel like it :)


Enjoy,

bun


N810/Diablo/SD boot

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To use rdesktop, N800 would have to use the onscreen keyboard once you are in, Start>Programs>Accessories>Accessability>On-screen keyboard, it works pretty well.

For the N810, yes you can use your keyboard, most of the time. FireFox is a lot well behave than IE, interesting :-) , for one, FFox allows your tablet keyboard to switch between letters and blue Fn keys, mainly numerals, but IE would not, or I have not been able to figure out. FFox rules!

bun