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Remote desktop connectivity

Remote desktop connectivity

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Remote desktop connectivity

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- One thing people would love to do is to connect to their office computer from home or any remote location. And this is done through remote desktop technologies. Now, remote desktop started with a company called Citrix. They used a proprietary protocol called Independent Computing Architecture or ICA. And this was done over an IP network. Citrix is still a little popular today, but there are others out there such as TightVNC and RDP. Now, VNC stands for virtual network computing and TightVNC is just one program that uses this. VNC is a cross platform solution. In other words, you can have a Mac computer connect remotely to a Linux computer, whereas RDP, remote desktop protocol, this is a proprietary protocol from Microsoft. Now, TightVNC itself, it does come with Mac and Linux. You can get it for Windows, but you have to download it. Now, when you have a VNC, you'll get a viewer and then you'll get a service. Another method to connect to remote computer, as we said, is Microsoft's…

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