On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 3:48 PM, Greg Folkert <<a href="mailto:greg@gregfolkert.net">greg@gregfolkert.net</a>> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="Ih2E3d"><br>> It costs $2000...Does anyone know of anything opensource that could<br>
> work on Linux and Windows?<br>
> Where all the client would have to do is click on a link from a web<br>
> page to begin.<br>
><br>
> Any details or links would be greatly appreciated. I am aware of<br>
> realVNC and gotomycomputer, but was looking for something that works<br>
> more like bomgar where I could turn IT support into a business or<br>
> offer support to my family if they agree to switch to Linux ;)</div></blockquote><div><br>Before DynDNS and such were user-friendly, I set up a simple php web page that emailed to me the IP address of whoever visited the page. Then I would give my family a shortcut/bookmark to that page. They would call me up letting me know that they needed help, then visit the bookmarked page. I would then VNC or SSH into their computer and fix things.<br>
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