Announce - New VNCScan Version

[Steve]

If you are a VNC user or you are looking for a very inexpensive yet full
featured remote management application, you really should try out VNCScan.

It's available at http://www.vncscan.com and for $40, its practically free
compared to the other guys.

VNC Features:
a.. Wizard driven VNC deployment. You can push install the following VNC
flavors:
a.. UltraVNC
b.. RealVNC 4
c.. TightVNC
d.. mVNC
e.. Tridia VNC
f.. RealVNC 3
b.. Multithreaded (super fast) VNC scanner
c.. Save profiles of VNC settings for standard deployments.
d.. Add custom registry settings for deployment profiles
e.. Easily store scan settings into groups
f.. Export scan results to HTML
g.. Modify VNC settings on remote computers
h.. You can choose what version of viewer to use
i.. Full control over remote VNC services
j.. Wake On LAN before connection (optional)
k.. Removal of VNC from remote computers
Network Administration Features:

a.. Run administrative tasks as another user (impersonation)
b.. Built in remote task management
c.. Search domains and scan groups for the workstations that a user is
logged into.
d.. Set custom programs to launch on right-click
e.. Push and execute VBS and CMD scripts on network workstations
f.. Send Wake On LAN
g.. Easily browse network shares
h.. One click access to remote computer Management MMC
i.. Find who's logged into remote computers
j.. Reboot remote computers
k.. Point and Ping
l.. Full Network Neighborhood support (Not just VNC)
m.. Built in Terminal Server client
n.. Windows password reset
o.. Server maintenance logging

 

[Chuck]

If you are a VNC user or you are looking for a very inexpensive yet full
featured remote management application, you really should try out VNCScan.

It's available at http://www.vncscan.com and for $40, its practically free
compared to the other guys.

VNC Features:
a.. Wizard driven VNC deployment. You can push install the following VNC
flavors:
a.. UltraVNC
b.. RealVNC 4
c.. TightVNC
d.. mVNC
e.. Tridia VNC
f.. RealVNC 3
b.. Multithreaded (super fast) VNC scanner
c.. Save profiles of VNC settings for standard deployments.
d.. Add custom registry settings for deployment profiles
e.. Easily store scan settings into groups
f.. Export scan results to HTML
g.. Modify VNC settings on remote computers
h.. You can choose what version of viewer to use
i.. Full control over remote VNC services
j.. Wake On LAN before connection (optional)
k.. Removal of VNC from remote computers
Network Administration Features:

a.. Run administrative tasks as another user (impersonation)
b.. Built in remote task management
c.. Search domains and scan groups for the workstations that a user is
logged into.
d.. Set custom programs to launch on right-click
e.. Push and execute VBS and CMD scripts on network workstations
f.. Send Wake On LAN
g.. Easily browse network shares
h.. One click access to remote computer Management MMC
i.. Find who's logged into remote computers
j.. Reboot remote computers
k.. Point and Ping
l.. Full Network Neighborhood support (Not just VNC)
m.. Built in Terminal Server client
n.. Windows password reset
o.. Server maintenance logging

Steve,

The "other guys", as you put them, are free. So what does your product offer
that is better (not just more features, though some may want some of these)? I
note that your Change History (on the Downloads page no less) goes back only to
February 2005? Is that the extent of its maturity?

Does your product require .Net on the server, or on the client (where the admin
is)?

Since I don't use .Net trivially (ie I don't have it installed currently), I
can't just download and start testing your product. So I'll have to ask the
specific questions, re features that are, hopefully, universal in VNC, though
not stated in your webpage (and that I require):
1) Does VNCS have a listening viewer feature (or how does it deal with NAT)?
2) Does VNCS contain native encryption, and if so, which flavours?
3) Will I be able to evaluate the product, and if so, upon what terms?

Your post borders on being spam, even though marginally related to the focus of
this forum. But I'm giving you the benefit of the doubt here - you appear to
have a serious product, so work with me here.

--
Cheers,
Chuck
Paranoia comes from experience - and is not necessarily a bad thing.
My email is AT DOT
actual address pchuck sonic net.

 

[Jack]

Hi

Interesting VNC Console.

VNC Consoles are not widely known applications it might help if the
explanation would be more straight forward rather the "Free thing" since it
leads to believe as though it is just another VNC program.

I wonder if it can push UtraVNC installation through the Internet?

Jack (MVP-Networking).

 

[Chuck]

Hi

Interesting VNC Console.

VNC Consoles are not widely known applications it might help if the
explanation would be more straight forward rather the "Free thing" since it
leads to believe as though it is just another VNC program.

I wonder if it can push UtraVNC installation through the Internet?

Jack (MVP-Networking).

Reading the website, it claims to do that, and also to pull UVNC back. I'm
still waiting for the OP to let us know about:
1) How does it handle NAT.
2) What encryption does it support.

The other features are interesting, but just that. But in my situation, I need
NAT, and encryption, support. Or is it targeted only to corporate WANs?

But the OP is still borderline spam. The only reason why I'm not reporting it
is that it was, at least, targeted here, and neither cross-posted or
multi-posted. As opposed to the GOOD NEWS thread advertising an un named
product, and directed to EBay, this ad named the product. And, as opposed to
the other article, which was cross-posted to 6 groups, this one appears to have
hit MPWXNW only.

--
Cheers,
Chuck
Paranoia comes from experience - and is not necessarily a bad thing.
My email is AT DOT
actual address pchuck sonic net.

 

[Malke]

Reading the website, it claims to do that, and also to pull UVNC back.
I'm still waiting for the OP to let us know about:
1) How does it handle NAT.
2) What encryption does it support.

The other features are interesting, but just that. But in my
situation, I need
NAT, and encryption, support. Or is it targeted only to corporate
WANs?

But the OP is still borderline spam. The only reason why I'm not
reporting it is that it was, at least, targeted here, and neither
cross-posted or
multi-posted. As opposed to the GOOD NEWS thread advertising an un
named
product, and directed to EBay, this ad named the product. And, as
opposed to the other article, which was cross-posted to 6 groups, this
one appears to have hit MPWXNW only.

Yes, but he's posted this in quite a few newsgroups, not necessarily
having anything to do with the subject. Borderline spam if you're being
nice about spam (I'm usually not). ;-)

Malke

 

[Chuck]

Yes, but he's posted this in quite a few newsgroups, not necessarily
having anything to do with the subject. Borderline spam if you're being
nice about spam (I'm usually not). ;-)

Malke

Malke,

I thought I remembered something about that product, but I couldn't find any
prior posts when I looked. So I gave the OP the benefit of the doubt.

Of course, my personal situation, where I am using UVNC for a number of clients,
meant that I was personally disposed to consider what the OP was offering, if
it's useful. The fact that its history only goes back to February 2005 makes
that doubtful though.

Having seen too many forums almost disintegrate under the weight of spam, I
won't make that mistake again.

Thanks for that detail. One spam is one too many.

--
Cheers,
Chuck
Paranoia comes from experience - and is not necessarily a bad thing.
My email is AT DOT
actual address pchuck sonic net.

 

[Steve]

Hi guys,

I wasn't trying to spam the group. I hate spam, too. I was just announcing
the new version as a public service. I would never think of doing this in
mass emails or popup messages but a post to relevant news groups every once
in a blue moon is usually pretty well recieved.

To answer some of your questions, yes, VNCScan can can deploy UltraVNC over
a network or the Internet bug I really wouldn't suggest doing this over the
Internet without some form of encryption involved. The easiest way to
ensure encryption is through VPN. You can use ssh and others but it's not
nearly as painless to set up as VPN.

Chuck asked how it handles NAT. I'm not sure how to answer that without
knowing the context of what is being asked. I'm guessing that he means to
ask if it can detect computers over the Internet if the remote computers are
on a private network behind a router and using NAT. The quick answer to
that is no, it can't. It detects them reliably if you are on that NAT
network, though. For example, if you are on the network and have the same
subnet on your computer, you can scan that subnet and locate them all. It's
a multithreaded port scanner so it suffers the same limitations as any other
port scanner in that reguard. I'm working on a service, though, and that
service can be installed on a computer within that NAT and handle the
scanning, then report back over the Internet to the console. It won't be
released for a few months, though.

VNC doesn't have any stream encryption beyond encrypting the password
exchange, so I wouldn't suggest that you use it raw over the Internet. It
is really a solution for LANs. VNCScan also includes support for Terminal
Services, though. You can set the terminal server to use high encryption
and that is prety safe over the Internet.

My typical scenario is to have a terminal server accessible over the
Internet. VNCScan is installed on that Terminals Server. The data stream
for the terminal server connection is encrypted. I connect to the remote
LAN via terminal services and then launch VNCScan on the terminal server and
manage the 300+ nodes with vncscan.

I saw someone say that the "other guys" are free. I can't find a program
that does all that VNCScan does for under $100. VNCScan is only $40 so
that's a huge price difference. Also, I give every person (customer or not)
the absolute best support that I can.

VNCScan has been out since 1999 and was the very first VNC management
application on the market. We've had a presence on the web since 2000.
Someone said 2004 but that's just the history of the builds trimmed down so
that the page doesn't take days to load.

The easy way to find out how long a web site has been around is to check
them out at http://web.archive.org. In August of 2000, it was debuted on
http://tgcs.web-it.com and then later at http://www.vncscan.com.

I really hope that I didn't offend anyone by posting here. I'll eliminate
this newsgroup from any further announcements if it is a problem. I don't
want to be put in the camp of those annoying spammers!

- Steve Bostedor