by selectortone » Sun Nov 21, 2010 11:31 am
nohitter151 wrote:Try a VNC program for that, like TightVNC or similar. VNC programs allow you to remote control other PCs through the network.
I've just down downloaded TightVNC and it works great!
I have my music on an external drive connected to an old Dell laptop running XP. That's connected via an external USB sound card to my sound system - all at the other end of my lounge. I've been looking at buying a longer optical cable so I could move the Dell over to where I sit, but TightVNC solved that problem - I'm controlling MM on the Dell wirelessly from my other Windows7 laptop from my armchair - a further step towards my goal of total couch-potatodom - Excellent!!
Nohitter151, thanks for the heads up on TightVNC - it took less than 5 minutes to set up on each computer and works flawlessly.
[quote="nohitter151"]Try a VNC program for that, like TightVNC or similar. VNC programs allow you to remote control other PCs through the network.[/quote]
I've just down downloaded TightVNC and it works great!
I have my music on an external drive connected to an old Dell laptop running XP. That's connected via an external USB sound card to my sound system - all at the other end of my lounge. I've been looking at buying a longer optical cable so I could move the Dell over to where I sit, but TightVNC solved that problem - I'm controlling MM on the Dell wirelessly from my other Windows7 laptop from my armchair - a further step towards my goal of total couch-potatodom - Excellent!!
Nohitter151, thanks for the heads up on TightVNC - it took less than 5 minutes to set up on each computer and works flawlessly.