Following the loss (failure?) of the RapidShare link, I've replaced that with the hosting provided by Markus.

Hi,

Last month I had to pull the downloads section of this site... after I got a snotogram from my ISP about my site's bandwidth allowance. Thing is, it's part of the T & Cs of hosting with them and for the most part, it's not an issue. However, every once in a while some numpty will repeat the download again and again and then.... pop, the file is taken offline. :(

I've pulled all the downloads until I can find a new home for them. I've looked at some of the free hosting out there, but so far, none are suitable. There's no direct links to the content, it may vanish if no-one downloads it for a while and perhaps most importantly, the data has to be yours... which it isn't. I don't own VNC :)

So why am I posting this? Well, firstly to say sorry. You noticing a list vibe going on here? :) Secondly to say, no, I'm not going to email you the ZIP file at this time. What I am going to say is this: Fastpush has been hosted here (for free) for just about 10 years and if you'd like to see it available for a while longer, are any of you willing to host the ZIP file on your servers?

Cheers
Richard

Hi,

Firstly, don't get excited, I'm not about to release a load of code to allow you to push VNC on to Vista and Windows 7 :-) Sorry guys.

The reason for a lack of code changes - other than laziness on my part - is that I'm pretty much server focused these days. I do less and less PC client work as the months go by.

I did have a crack at making Fastpush work with Vista, but with other commitments, I didn't get very far with it. Maybe when Windows 7 comes out, I'll look at it again.

In related news, I've been using Microsoft's Shared View quite a bit. It's free, and although the "session starter" needs a Windows Live account, not everyone does. Seems to do the job!

Cheers
Richard

hi, I am using your fp82 to push out vnc on about 20 PCs, it works great on XP. Now, here I have a issue pushing out vnc on Vista, it seems vnc service running but when I attempted to connect, it shows error. have you had this expereince before? any workaround?

To be honest, no. I've not done anything with Fastpush for Vista for some time now.

The latest version of UltraVNC may be the best way forward for you. I do know that that's Vista friendly.

Each time I download the FastPush file form the site it says it is going to my downloads folder. Well it never makes it there so I try opening the file straight from download and extracting it, no files ever come out.

It sounds like the download you've got is corrupted. I don't use Vista, but have you tried clicking the link with the right hand mouse button and selecting "save as"? Do you find the download works better via Firefox?

I noted a post at Raymond's blog that it says that there are 2 versions of Fastpush one lite and the other one full. the Lite one can be downloaded here but the Full one is nowhere to find. So the questions is, does it exist? If not, where I can find instructions of how to use FastPush with UltraVNC?

As you say the lite version is available, however I had to remove the much larger full version because of bandwidth issues. You can use Fastpush with UltraVNC by making a subfolder in the Fastpush folder called Ultra. Dump all of the EXEs and DLLs that Ultra uses in there and then push it out using the /ultra switch.

Hi everyone,

Richard Dedmon writes:

Where can I obtain "howto for making your own setup.exe file. You can use this in a logon script to install VNC to your target 9x workstations."?

Looks like I'd deleted that file as it got such low traffic. Still, if you find it useful, I'll put it back here.

Ronald Nissley writes:

I noticed you say you haven't worked with MACs. Well, since OS X, the kernel is similar to the Linux kernel.
VNC-wise, the two apps I like for OS X:

Chicken of the VNC - free/open VNC client
http://sourceforge.net/projects/cotvnc/

OSXvnc - free/open VNC server
http://sourceforge.net/projects/osxvnc/

Thanks for the links!

Richard Dedmon (again :-) ) writes:

I'm am using fastpush with ultravnc. I have incorporated the contents of VNCHooks_Settings.reg from an installation of ultravnc into machine.ini. I am successful except the file transfer does not work. If I then run VNCHooks_Settings.reg on the machine that I have loaded with fastpush the file transfer works. What am I missing?

If you copied the contents of the .REG file into the .INI then it won't work. The format is very different. You would be better off setting the values by imported the REG file into your test computer and then using REG to export those values to an INI file. You can then cut and paste that with the standard MACHINE.INI file. That should do it.

Neal Revell writes:

Hi, I've started looking at using your script. I was wondering though, to save 'victims' having something to play with, I was hoping that I could cut down the number of shortcuts that are installed. At present, there are 3 sub-folders under 'RealVNC' which are VNC Server - Service Mode, VNC Server - User Mode, VNC Viewer. I know there is the set command to not install any shortcuts, but ideally I would like to have just the VNC Server - Service Mode present, along with My Details.

All of the icons are created by the section entitled: CREATE A BATCH FILE TO CREATE SHORTCUTS ON REMOTE PC. The section you're interested in starts with the line:

if "%real4%"=="yes"

From there on there are some MD command (which make the folders up, natch). Just pop a REM statement at the front of each line that you don't want an icon creating. That should do you.

Lastly, and by no means least, Amit Keynan wrote in offering to share his HTA wrapper for Fastpush. Well, he's kindly supplied a copy and here it it. Use it at your own risk. As I didn't write this funky app, I'm not offering any support on it. :-)

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Hello one and all,

Has it really been six months since I updated this site? Ooops. :-)

Amit wrote:

this is probably the single most useful piece of script I ever used
I compiled a little HTA gui for it, how can i send it to you so you can post it here

Well thanks! High praise indeed. I'll drop you an email about the HTA code.

David wrote:

I have noticed when I use fastpush to push ultravnc with ntlm to x64 machines in installs fine but then is unusable because it says no admin password has been set

I know x64 uses a different place to store ODBC connections if they are 64 or 32 bit links. I don't have Windows 2003 x64 to hand, but it may be worth setting up a working copy of UltraVNC with NTLM and searching the registry for that data. Perhaps Fastpush is putting the data in the wrong place?