Iphones and remote desktop access?

Bombastic

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Do any of you guys with iphones use them to remotely access your main computer's desktop through a VPN or something? I'm wondering if the remote experience is good enough to make it possible to use for IM when I'm out. Like, do software interfaces display properly, or are there things missing or distorted etc.?

At the moment I'm often sitting here running shit like Scrapebox and SENuke and some profile link bots, and all I'm really doing is waiting for a process to finish so I can click a button or two and maybe cut and paste something, then start the next process. But I could do that stuff from the beach if the remote access is good enough.

I have no use for an iphone aside from that, that's why I'm asking. Japanese phones are good for net access, emails, and all sorts of bells and whistles so smart phones are not a big thing here (yet...iphones are starting to become the cool thing to have).

Any thoughts? Cheers.
 


I use VNC Lite as a client (iphone) and WinVNC for the server side.

Works reasonably well, most software i use shows up fine, it just takes a little longer to navigate with such a small screen.
 
As long as it can zoom in like the safari browser can then I guess I can deal with the small screen. Sounds good.
 
most remote desktop programs i've used are really nice...but it might be better to use on an ipad, cause the iphone screen is pretty small for something like that...but it does work...
 
There are a few RDP programs out there, I like RDP because it seems to redraw the screen faster than VNC.
 
roclafamilia said:
most remote desktop programs i've used are really nice...but it might be better to use on an ipad, cause the iphone screen is pretty small for something like that...but it does work...
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That's a good point, I'll think about this.

This opens up a whole new world for me. I'm basically a tech retard, and I didn't even know there was such a thing as remote desktop access until a few days ago.
 
Throw on an SSH server as well if you're worried about security and run an SSH client on your iphone to tunnel VNC or ideally RDP down that
 
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