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3 Get Connected
To connect your UltraVNC Server
computers you also need the
UltraVNC Viewer included in the
initial installation. But before you
run this program on the computer
that’s doing the connecting, you’ll
want to double-click the Hamachi
icon in the Windows toolbar and
connect to your private network.
You’ll now see why installing
Hamachi is a good idea: Look
at the window and copy the IP
address of the machine you’re
connecting to into the UltraVNC
Viewer window.
And that’s it! It’s the easiest way to
figure out a machine’s IP address with-
out physically being at that machine or
establishing a static IP.
local users from disabling an UltraVNC
connection. You can also turn off a local
user’s ability to type, move the mouse, or
even edit UltraVNC settings. Most impor-
tantly, this is the screen where you set
UltraVNC’s password—without one, all
someone needs is your IP address to take
over your machine.
You can quick-set your connection-
specific encoding and coloration
options on the tiny viewer, but the
Options menu offers you far more
control over your network session.
4 Tweak Your Connection’s Settings
Now that you’ve connected to
your faraway machine, you might
very well be staring at an image
of your desktop with scroll bars
attached to the sides of the
window. It’s an annoying way to
manipulate your host machine, so
here’s how to change it—and a
raft of other options.
At the top of the UltraVNC
Viewer window is a series of icons.
Select the one that looks like Earth
with a gear over it; it should be
third from the left. Clicking the icon
pulls up the options for the UltraVNC
Viewer client. The program is initially
set to replicate a 100-percent duplicate
of your desktop, which can lead to the
scroll bars on your window. Crank this
value down by selecting a different per-
centage for Viewer Scale and you’ll be
able to fit your remote desktop on your
current display.
UltraVNC is set to automatically
select the remote image’s encoding set-
tings, but you can manually adjust the
options for greater control and speed.
If your mouse response time is slow,
select the option for the remote server
to deal with the mouse cursor or disable
the cursor image entirely.
If your connection is pokey, first
try selecting different compression
algorithms to find one that best fits
your needs for quality and speed. To
maximize the latter, nix the colors—pull
up your remote computer in grayscale if
you have to, as it’ll reduce the amount of
bandwidth required to transfer the desk-
top image from your remote box to you.
The specific encoding techniques
are complicated. Your best bet is
to run through the list to see which
gives you the best performance on
your connection.
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