Geek alert
4/24/2007 12:36:00 PM
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OK, I really need to figure out how to get this working on my desk. It would clear up huge headaches.10-second description: a little (software) utility that lets you share one keyboard and one mouse across multiple machines (and their respective monitors).
Basically, my desk is set up 1-2-3. 1 is the monitor for my IBM laptop, which is VPN'd into the IBM network. 2 is my new sweetness, a 22" widescreen behemoth feeding video from and serving as an extention of number 3, my bank (the client I work for) laptop screen. Yes, I have three screens on my desk. One is for IBM, the other two for client work. Technically, I have four screens on my desk. But I'm only using three of them.
There are a couple problems I've been wrestling with, though: I don't have a docking station for the IBM laptop, which means that even though I'm not using the built-in screen, I need to have the laptop open (and taking up space on my desk). Not ideal, considering I could have it closed with the monitor it feeds sitting on top of it.
Problem number two is that this solution, no matter how elegant it is, just won't work for me - because both machines tunnel through different VPNs, there would be no way to link them up together (other than over the internet, which I'm sure wouldn't work - they would need to talk to each other both on the home network - so I can attach them to their respective VPNs - and then they would drop their connection to one another).
The only solution I can think of that MIGHT work would be to hide the IBM machine somewhere and VNC into it via a local machine. But that would mean another machine and another network connection on my desk (see why I'm putting so many network connections in the office now, Pablo?). :)
So basically, set up a dumb terminal on my desk that does nothing but relay the VNC output from the IBM laptop, and use that as the client - that way I don't have to worry about logging on to the VPN screwing me up.
Shoot - will I even be able to VNC into the IBM laptop anymore after I connect to the VPN? (I gave you the geek alert). Probably not. Which means this whole post is moot anyway, dammit. What a nuisance.
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8 Comments:
Geek.
How about you add a second network card to each and set up a private network between them?
Or how about a simple console switch?
posted at 4:37 PM
Oh my Gosh! I was lost after 2. You have 4 monitors at your desk? Are you hacking the WHOLE world wide web like that guy in the movie "The Core" ?? Wow!
posted at 1:15 PM
You can't run the IBM with an external monitor and the lid closed!? Umm... why not?
posted at 2:51 PM
No no, I can but the whole point is that I don't want two separate KBs/mice on the desk. Way too much clutter.
And Leechee - Yes. The entire web. If your internets go down, it's me. I'm watching you. And you should be ashamed of yourself.
posted at 11:49 PM
I had to skip reading this post. It made my head hurt. My brain just doesn't work that way.
posted at 7:15 AM
Amy - I gave a very clear geek warning. You only have yourself to blame. :)
posted at 10:26 AM
No no, I can but the whole point is that I don't want two separate KBs/mice on the desk. Way too much clutter.
Any 4 monitors isn't too much clutter?
posted at 1:22 PM
So that is YOU Hacking the Wole Web!?! Awesome! I promise to keep my internet searching "clean" from now on.
Man I'm hungry for a Hot Pocket..
posted at 2:04 PM
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