Controlling PC over WiFi

[Kain Goan]

Is there a program that allows you to use your Wizard to remotely control your PC over Wifi?

I remember my friend had one on his Universal that allowed him to use bluetooth to control his PC but I don't remember the name. Also, not sure if it was the phone's fault but the picture was slow to refresh. Unfortunately, he's now sold his Universal and said good riddance to anything affiliated with it...

There were a couple of programs that let you use your Wizard as a keyboard input device but do these also let you control mouse and let you see what's going on?

[NexNo]

Yes, try this! :)

[jmel]

Is there a program that allows you to use your Wizard to remotely control your PC over Wifi?

I remember my friend had one on his Universal that allowed him to use bluetooth to control his PC but I don't remember the name. Also, not sure if it was the phone's fault but the picture was slow to refresh. Unfortunately, he's now sold his Universal and said good riddance to anything affiliated with it...

There were a couple of programs that let you use your Wizard as a keyboard input device but do these also let you control mouse and let you see what's going on?

there is a terminal services client built in as well...

[Kain Goan]

Thanks for the replies.

Yeah... the in built Terminal Services Client didn't work for me and I guessed that it was just the inbuilt stuff being useless.

Unfortunately the vncviewer doesn't seem to work either. I'm beginning to suspect that there's something wrong with my Wizard or my home WiFi setup in general.

Oh well, time to go fiddlin'

[NexNo]

On my device it works perfectly. You can also run the program on your desktop pc to test it.
Can you ping your pocket pc from a desktop pc?

[Kain Goan]

No, I can't ping my Wizard; I tried this first and nothing goes through.

I had thought that my router wasn't letting anything through but I can ping the other computer on my network just fine.

I did try the program but I can't connect to the other computer on my network. I only know the basic home networking stuff so it's probably something to do with my wireless router. Do the ports matter?

[NexNo]

The ports don't matter because ping takes place far under the TCP/UDP layer. On my router (fritzbox 7050) there is an option where you must allow that wifi devices may communicate with each other in general. This is the only restriction I can think of if your other computers are hardwired.

However, I can ping my wizard just fine when he's connected to my router. Have you enabled DHCP? If so, try to (disable it and) manually assign an IP to the wizard.

[Kain Goan]

My router (Belkin F5D7633) doesn't have any options to enable or disable communications.

I tried assigning the IP address manually and switching DHCP off and this has allowed pinging but I still can't use either the inbuilt terminal services or the vncviewer.

I think I'm going to give up trying to use my Wizard for this and just stick with a laptop...

[NexNo]

Maybe this should be said, but I thought you surely know ....
In order to use the vncviewer program, there has to be a vncserver program running on some machine. try realvnc for example http://www.realvnc.com/.
Install this on a local desktop machine and then try that viewer again.

If you already did that, then sorry :wink:

[Kain Goan]

:lol: Don't be sorry. Actually I already have the free verison of VNC running on all my machines and I have a license for Access Remote PC from a while ago to transfer files when my Windows XP stopped displaying some folders across the network.

I think that's where my problem is: either in my network or in my operating system. I do access my PC from my laptop but I just thought it'd be nice if I could do it from my phone too. Oh well... but thanks for the help though, you've been very thorough :lol:

[NexNo]

no problem :wink: the last thing I would try in your case is to open up a general server on your desktop pc with a program like netcat. then grab a telnet application or the internetexplorer on ppc and try to connect there with that. worth a try at least...

[ump001]

How can i use this with macs? Is there another software available?