#Timbuktu pro pro
#Timbuktu pro software

The file-transfer utility opens a Mac-style two-paned window on a Mac, and a Windows Explorer-style utility on a PC. Screen-resolution differences between Macs and Windows PCs are presented well, with auto scrolling and one-click screen scaling to shrink a high-resolution remote screen into a smaller control window. The slight lag for menu items and windows to open isn't too bothersome. Playing Windows Solitaire on a G4 PowerBook does look a bit odd and feel a bit treasonous. Remote performance gives only a slight heaviness when dragging cards in Solitaire, both on local networks and across Internet links, making remote control usable when opening and closing windows and applications. Spend your waiting time worrying whether outsiders can use this to control and perhaps transfer files through your perimeter, leaving no audit trail.

#Timbuktu pro pro

Leveraging Skype's stealth ability to pass through firewalls, Timbuktu Pro connects from outside by sliding down the Skype virtual telephone wire, connecting via Skype's file-transfer back-channel.Д«ut the bandwidth-limited Skype link makes the connections extremely slow. Besides getting to the remote box via the expected TCP/IP network transport, you can dial up modem to modem, or connect via Skype. With no host or proxy server in the middle of the remote-control process, Timbuktu Pro administrators must connect directly to computers to initiate a remote-control session.ДЇinding remote users may be problematic when they sit behind firewalls.

#Timbuktu pro software

Registering the product online to Netopia triggers an e-mail to the listed administrator with all licensed software keys, making it easy to cut and paste them. Installation for Macs includes typing in a 40-character key, but the installation for PCs didn't require that key. Macintosh controllers can make QuickTime movies of remote sessions, for example, while Windows controllers can't do so. Revealing the company's historical Macintosh favoritism, Timbuktu Pro remote clients monitored by Macintosh machines have more remote-control ability than those monitored by consoles running on Windows.