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i-Planet Administration Guide

Installing Other Remote Control Software for Machines Running Microsoft Windows

The i-Planet software comes with support for CarbonCopy, LapLink, RapidRemote, ReachOut, and RemotelyPossible, all of which are software from several third parties for remotely controlling PCs running under Microsoft Windows.

You must buy the software that you want your end users to use in controlling their machines running under Microsoft Windows.

The following procedure for installing these products is generic in nature and similar to the procedure for installing the pcANYWHERE software. They run slightly differently from i-Planet's NetFile and Netlet applications than does pcANYWHERE.

To Install the Software

  1. Install the server software on the machines that your end users want to control.

  2. Install the client software on the machine that the end users will be using to connect to the i-Planet NetFile application.

    Note -

    The client must alway have the target or destination machine specified as localhost when going through NetFile and Netlet.

  3. Click the check box behind the individual software item (CarbonCopy, LapLink, RapidRemote, ReachOut, and RemotelyPossible) in the Netlet Administration page of the Administration Console to enable it.

  4. Click Enter at the bottom of the Netlet Administration page to save your changes.

  5. Click the check box for remote control on the NetFile Configuration page of the Administration Console to enable it.

  6. Click Enter at the bottom of the NetFile Configuration page to save your changes.

  7. As root on the i-Planet server, stop and restart the web server so that the changes will take effect.


    # /opt/SUNWjeev/bin/iplanet_serv stop
# /opt/SUNWjeev/bin/iplanet_serv start

  8. When the end users are running the NetFile application from the i-Planet Desktop, they must:

    1. Select the system to be controlled remotely.

      This is the system on which the software was installed in Step Step 1

    2. Start their own client software with the target host localhost.

      This is the system on which the software was installed in Step Step 2

      Note -

      For all these third-party products, the end user must start the client.