PC remote control via browser
Since Friday is the Chrome extension "Remote Desktop" in the Chrome store in beta for download, a prerequisite is an installed Chrome browser. The tool is mainly used for remote control of other PCs on the network, even on this Chrome browser must be installed and expansion. Of a constraint on Windows PCs on the download page is not mentioned. The extension should therefore also for Chrome installations on Mac OS or Linux are available and also work on the Chrome notebooks that get to be at least indirect access to Windows, Mac or Linux programs.
For the installation of the browser and the extension has no administrative rights are required. Chrome is not as usual in the program directory, but the data directory of the user installs.
The remote software is available as an app on the home page in a new tab. Users who use a googlemail.com address may initially create a release for others - a solution provides the instructions on the Google Watch blog - but only access to a shared computer.
The control by another user can quit by hotkey. In initial tests, the controller was running on a medium speed DSL connection is quite fluid. An adaptation of the desktop window size to the size of the controlling browser does not occur.
So far for the release of your own computer is still a manual intervention is required, which produces among other things, the Kommunikationspartener to send twelve digit number. This activates the remote control. A function to control their own computer from a distance will run after Google in a future update.
Since Friday is the Chrome extension "Remote Desktop" in the Chrome store in beta for download, a prerequisite is an installed Chrome browser. The tool is mainly used for remote control of other PCs on the network, even on this Chrome browser must be installed and expansion. Of a constraint on Windows PCs on the download page is not mentioned. The extension should therefore also for Chrome installations on Mac OS or Linux are available and also work on the Chrome notebooks that get to be at least indirect access to Windows, Mac or Linux programs.
For the installation of the browser and the extension has no administrative rights are required. Chrome is not as usual in the program directory, but the data directory of the user installs.
The remote software is available as an app on the home page in a new tab. Users who use a googlemail.com address may initially create a release for others - a solution provides the instructions on the Google Watch blog - but only access to a shared computer.
The control by another user can quit by hotkey. In initial tests, the controller was running on a medium speed DSL connection is quite fluid. An adaptation of the desktop window size to the size of the controlling browser does not occur.
So far for the release of your own computer is still a manual intervention is required, which produces among other things, the Kommunikationspartener to send twelve digit number. This activates the remote control. A function to control their own computer from a distance will run after Google in a future update.
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