Hello Arelor!

** On Tuesday 06.10.20 - 05:31, arelor wrote to Warpslide:

This is why I stopped doing computer work "on the side" for
friends & most family. I'll still fix my Mom's computer,
becaus well, she's my Mom.

Jay

I got fed up of solving computer issues for family and then
not being given a "thank you".

More like "Hey, my computer if broken" ($me fixes computer)
"Now get lost you Linux geek".

Nowadays I bill for presential support, no exceptions.

(Bonus points if they boast an easy to use operating system
after you do ALL the system maintenance for them because
they are incapable of installing a simple program)

A few years ago, I spent a lot of time looking to replace
someone's impossibly infested/broken XP pc with a linux
distro. The linux solution performed wonderfully on that old
pc. Only the legacy printer has some issues - which I would
have solved by replacing that stupid cheap printer! I
restored a full proper backup of all salient documents and
photos from the XP to the linux pc.

A little while later, a neighbor donated a Win10 pc to that
person, and nolonger wanted the linux pc.

Then I got calls to help "fix" things on that Win10 pc! I
gracefully bowed out.

All I got in payment was the old XP pc + a couple hours of my
time :/ ..even though it took much longer than that to find
the best distro to match the pc specs.

Today, I got a couple of emails from a friend who is having a
problem with emails from her desktop. The lady is generally
not helpful in describing the exact issues over the phone. So,
a home visit is usually what I would end up doing. (It is a
40km drive - one way).

The last time I was there I tried various remote-desktop
solutions, so that I could pop-in and take a quick look
without taking the drive, but none of the free versions seemed
to work. The person has internet service via satellite, and
access to the home router is locked - so I can't adjust port-
forwarding or anything like that.

I forgot about about Anydesk. Maybe I'll try that.

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On 10/6/2020 5:40 AM, Ogg wrote:

The last time I was there I tried various remote-desktop
solutions, so that I could pop-in and take a quick look
without taking the drive, but none of the free versions seemed
to work. The person has internet service via satellite, and
access to the home router is locked - so I can't adjust port-
forwarding or anything like that.

I forgot about about Anydesk. Maybe I'll try that.

I think it was called host-mode... but with VNC, you can create a
listening client, and they connect as a server to you. I had to do this
with my grandmother before... used to have to remotely clean crap off
her windows computer about every 6 months when she'd inevitably click on
a scam (my other grandmother much more proficient and identifying scams).

Was so happy when the damned thing died, bought her a chromebook instead.

--
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On 10/10/2020 4:47 p.m., Tracker1 wrote:

The last time I was there I tried various remote-desktop
solutions, so that I could pop-in and take a quick look..

I forgot about about Anydesk. Maybe I'll try that.

I think it was called host-mode... but with VNC, you can
create a listening client, and they connect as a server to
you. I had to do this with my grandmother before... used
to have to remotely clean crap off her windows computer
about every 6 months when she'd inevitably click on a scam
(my other grandmother much more proficient and identifying
scams).

I'm pretty sure I tried that. But ideally it has to be set up so
that I can initiate the connection to that remote pc. VNC requires port-forwarding manipulation at the receiving end. I can't access
the router at the client pc.

Was so happy when the damned thing died, bought her a
chromebook instead.

LOL.

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On 06/10/2020 11:20 a.m., Arelor wrote:

All I got in payment was the old XP pc + a couple hours
of my time: /.. even though it took much longer than
that to find the best distro to match the pc specs.

If you got the old PC, you can count yourself lucky.

I guess. It's not a bad machine at all. It's an eMachine T6528,
64bit CPU capable, but limited to 4GB ram. I decided to but Win7
32bit on it. The HDD interface is EIDE though.

I have not looked into remote desktop solutions for
Windows in a long time, but I can't say I was impressed..

Does LogMeIn still work for modern Windowses?

At $450/yr for 2 computers, no thanks.

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On 10/13/2020 11:29 AM, Ogg wrote:

I think it was called host-mode... but with VNC, you can
create a listening client, and they connect as a server to
you. I had to do this with my grandmother before... used
to have to remotely clean crap off her windows computer
about every 6 months when she'd inevitably click on a scam
(my other grandmother much more proficient and identifying
scams).

I'm pretty sure I tried that. But ideally it has to be set up so
that I can initiate the connection to that remote pc. VNC requires port-forwarding manipulation at the receiving end. I can't access
the router at the client pc.

No, I mean that you run the client in listen mode (your firewall/router
needs to port forward to you), then the other end runs the server to
connect to you...

Was so happy when the damned thing died, bought her a
chromebook instead.

LOL.

I'm not the biggest fan of the massive tracking/ad system that is
google, but absolutely love Chromebooks for most people most of the time.

--
Michael J. Ryan
tracker1 +o Roughneck BBS

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Re: Re: doing computer work f
By: Ogg to Tracker1 on Tue Oct 13 2020 02:29 pm

On 10/10/2020 4:47 p.m., Tracker1 wrote:

The last time I was there I tried various remote-desktop
solutions, so that I could pop-in and take a quick look..

I forgot about about Anydesk. Maybe I'll try that.

I think it was called host-mode... but with VNC, you can
create a listening client, and they connect as a server to
you. I had to do this with my grandmother before... used
to have to remotely clean crap off her windows computer
about every 6 months when she'd inevitably click on a scam
(my other grandmother much more proficient and identifying
scams).

I'm pretty sure I tried that. But ideally it has to be set up so
that I can initiate the connection to that remote pc. VNC requires port-forwarding manipulation at the receiving end. I can't access
the router at the client pc.

Was so happy when the damned thing died, bought her a
chromebook instead.

LOL.

PC Anywhere was the hot remote access software 20 years ago. I recall one client claiming they needed it really bad to remote into a server, then it turned out they could reach it just fine using Hyperterminal which was
already in Win95.

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