[slinkelist] Networking CDJ

[W. John Guineau]

Ah, right. I remember reading that you needed to have NT on the network. At
the time I was running Windows 2000 RC2, but just didn't have the time to
get past seeing if it worked right off the bat.

I've also been using VNC for some time between work and home and to the
other PC around the house (on a LAN). VNC is great!

john


> -----Original Message-----
> From: pete [mailto:pbnlb@tiac.net]
> Sent: Wednesday, December 29, 1999 12:29 PM
> To: W. John Guineau
> Cc: Marc Parker; Michael Holopainen; slinkelist@nirvis.com
> Subject: Re: [slinkelist] Networking CDJ
>
>
> John,
>
> I agree that SlinkServ and DCOM is a great way to go, but DCOM implies
> a few things that may or may not be a problem for you. For instance; I
> have only Win98 machines. DCOM requires that you run your Win98 machines
> with User-Level Security. But to do that, you must have an
> Authentication
> server on your net {Win98 machines can NOT be Authentication
> servers/Primary Domain Controllers ... only WinNT} so ! VNC made perfect
> sense
> for me .. no muss no fuss ... it just works ! I think it would make
> sense
> for Win95 only users too.
>
> But if you have at least one WinNT machine and no Win95 machines, I
> think you'd
> be nuts not to use DCOM with SlinkServ since it's so much faster than
> VNC.
>
> Just my 2 cents
>
> -pete
>
> "W. John Guineau" wrote:
> >
> > I thought that what SlinkServ and DCOM support were for?
> >
> > I spent about 5 minutes one night trying to install DCOM and
> SlinkServ, but
> > I never got it working. It's been my intent since buying the
> Slink-e to have
> > it "distributed" across the house LAN available on any PC in
> the house to
> > control the main A/V stuff.
> >
> > Am I missing something here with regard to remote control of
> Slink-e/CDJ?
> >
> > john
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: slinkelist-admin@nirvis.com
> [mailto:slinkelist-admin@nirvis.com]On
> > > Behalf Of Marc Parker
> > > Sent: Tuesday, December 28, 1999 11:32 AM
> > > To: Michael Holopainen; slinkelist@nirvis.com
> > > Subject: Re: [slinkelist] Networking CDJ
> > >
> > >
> > > I don't understand how VNC would help with a networked CDJ,
> as it doesn't
> > > allow you to control the remote machine.
> > >
> > > Parker
> > >
> > > > From: Michael Holopainen <michael@laserle.fi>
> > > > Date: Mon, 27 Dec 1999 08:50:51 +0200
> > > > To: "slinkelist@nirvis.com" <slinkelist@nirvis.com>
> > > > Subject: Re: [slinkelist] Networking CDJ
> > > >
> > > > sorry, the VNC site real (current) address is :
> > > >
> > > > http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc/
> > > >
> > > > this is a free software :
> > > > - the setup is really easy. The program is <1Mb
> > > > "
> > > > What is VNC? - A practical introduction
> > > > VNC stands for Virtual Network Computing. It is, in
> essence, a remote
> > > > display system which allows you to view a computing
> > > > 'desktop' environment not only on the machine where it is
> running, but
> > > > from anywhere on the Internet and from a wide variety of
> > > > machine architectures.
> > > > "
> > > >
> > > > Everyone with cdj on a network MUST try this !!!!!!!!!!
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > -michael (A)
> > > >
> > > >
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