A better VNC solution?

[Lumikor]

Setup:

 

Two Windows 10 machines, Two MacOS machines and bunch of other stuff (Phones, Xbox, TV) and until today, I used to control the Windows machines via UltraVNC, which works, kinda...For some reason, the VNC on one machine stopped responding. I can connect to the server, I can get a screen, but I can't do anything else. I went all the way to it's physical location, updated the software, but still nothing. I can right click on the desktop, stop the VNC viewer, reconnect, and then I see the Menu from the right click. 

On the other hand, machine number two works just fine.

 

Now to be honest, I really hate this VNC, sometimes it just lose a system and won't let me connect to it unless I restart it and the viewer machine. So I was thinking, is there a better way? All I want is to see my coding machines and give some command without having to take a monitor, keyboard and mouse every time.If there is, it MUST have support for MacOS and have good reputation. I prefer free, but at this point...I DON'T KNOW WHAT TO DO!

 

Thank you all.

[Theguywhobea]

I know that if you pay for a TeamViewer license you can register machines and it makes unattended access very easy.

[Lumikor]

5 minutes ago, Theguywhobea said:

I know that if you pay for a TeamViewer license you can register machines and it makes unattended access very easy.

49$ a month...even I'll sell my kidney I won't be able to afford it :-D

[Theguywhobea]

Just now, Lumikor said:

49$ a month...even I'll sell my kidney I won't be able to afford it :-D

Oh lol, I didn't realize it was that expensive. I have a license through my work so I've never looked into what it cost lol

[spellmanuk]

11 minutes ago, Theguywhobea said:

I know that if you pay for a TeamViewer license you can register machines and it makes unattended access very easy.

you dont need to pay for it if its for personal use i use teamveiwer with a free account all the time it works really well

[Windows7ge]

I use a combination of RealVNC and TightVNC. RealVNC gets installed on the machine you want to access from and TightVNC is a 3rd party application I found which gets installed on every machine you want to remote into. Both are free. RealVNC has support for Mac OS, not sure about TightVNC. Have to check.

 

I should mention these only work on your local network. You can't use them over the internet (to my knowledge). Unless you want to setup a tunnel between two networks but that'd be a lot of work.

[Theguywhobea]

2 minutes ago, peej said:

you dont need to pay for it if its for personal use i use teamveiwer with a free account all the time it works really well

Do you still get unattended access without a paid for account?

[spellmanuk]

1 minute ago, Theguywhobea said:

Do you still get unattended access without a paid for account?

yep! thats the sole thing i do with it other than connecting to my moms computer

[porina]

I had problems with UltraVNC in the past too, and switched to TightVNC. The only minor problem I get now and then is it seems to get blocked by Windows firewall if you don't set it to "home network", even if you allow it through for other locations. The other oddity is that Viveport doesn't show up for some reason, but it is the only software I've encountered that does that.

[dionkoffie]

I don't recommend you doing this, but funny story. Last year I wanted to manage 2 linux boxes and a Windows machine remotely in one program. I used a RAT to control them lmao. Again. Don't do this LOL.

[Lumikor]

I'll try TightVNC next, if it won't help, I'll try to find that sweet free teamviewer, but that's only after a good night sleep (as if..)

 

TightVNC gives me a blank screen on the first machine, but does work on the second. I'm starting to think it's a driver issue.