A simple application to allow remote viewing of a desktop and control of the mouse and keyboard of the remote machine. Uses:

• An alternative to a KVM switch
• For remote monitoring of PCs
• For remote PC support
• As an alternative to VNC

Developed purely in Java, this application should run on any machine with a JVM 1.2 or above installed. It has been tested on Windows XP, Windows 98, Mac OS(on a Mac Mini), Suse Linux and Red Hat Linux.

• Download the server java-remote-control-r2.1b.zip, unzip and run (run run-jrc-server.bat in the bin folder) the remote server on the machine you wish to monitor or control.

The process to run the server on PC running UNIX is as follows

1. Rename the start.bat file to run-jrc-server.sh
2. Set the file as executable
3. Run the run-jrc-server.sh script

• Download the client java-remote-control-r2.1b.zip, unzip and run (run run-jrc-client.bat in the bin folder) the remote client on the machine you wish to control or monitor from.

The process to run the client on a PC running UNIX is as follows

1. Rename the start.bat file to run-jrc-client.sh
2. Set the file as executable
3. Run the run-jrc-client.sh script

1. Press Start on the server.
2. Press Connect on the client.
3. Thats it

You can now make screen recordings and convert them to movies

See: UsingTheScreenRecorder