Team Viewer

[Dot Matrix]

Anyone here use Team Viewer to RDP? I'm connecting to my laptop from my Surface RT, and was curious if there was a way to turn off the laptop's screen when I do, that way no one can see what I'm doing. I can't find a switch to do that, so my question is, is it possible?

[FiB3R]

Personally, I've never found anything that performs better than Windows built in remote desktop. But then I only ever use it on my local network.

I would like to achive the opposite, (which is possible with some file replacements, though I haven't been able to achieve lately), where by logging in via RDP does not log the current user out on the remote machine, because that user is me, I'm just not present.

So my roundabout answer is to use Windows RDP.

[Dot Matrix]

Windows Remote Desktop would be nice, but I've never gotten it to work through the Internet.

[xendrome]

Windows Remote Desktop would be nice, but I've never gotten it to work through the Internet.

All you have to do is forward port 3389 to your LAN ip, then connect to your WAN ip. and you are done.

[Haggis Veteran]

Anyone here use Team Viewer to RDP? I'm connecting to my laptop from my Surface RT, and was curious if there was a way to turn off the laptop's screen when I do, that way no one can see what I'm doing. I can't find a switch to do that, so my question is, is it possible?

click on Actions once your logged in and click Disable remote input

then click on actions and click show black screen

[Dot Matrix]

click on Actions once your logged in and click Disable remote input

then click on actions and click show black screen

That's just it, I don't see an "Actions" menu. This is all I see on the remote computer:

[farmeunit]

Look at the picture down the page.

http://choorucode.com/2012/02/16/teamviewer-show-black-screen-on-remote-computer/

[ichi]

All you have to do is forward port 3389 to your LAN ip, then connect to your WAN ip. and you are done.

But then you would be exposing your RDP service to everyone. I might be wrong but AFAIK teamviewer is not visible from the WAN.

[JJ_]

(Courtesy farmunit)

You have to disable remote input before you can turn off the screen. When you turn off the screen it will give you an option to install a driver. This caused problems for me so uncheck the option when you're asked to install a driver and it will use a generic one instead.

[Dot Matrix]

How do I disable remote input from my Surface? Those screenshots don't help because they don't match to what's on my screen. NM. Found it. Will play around with this to see what it does.

EDIT: Still not working. Applied Set screen to black, but the screen is still on. If this is a feature I have to pay for, I will rage.

It be ****ing great if Microsoft just brought back Windows Live Mesh since them killing it off is what caused this mess to begin with. All I want is a simple RDP app so that I can remote into a webcam while I am away. Jesus Christ.

[xendrome]

But then you would be exposing your RDP service to everyone. I might be wrong but AFAIK teamviewer is not visible from the WAN.

I was responding to his comment of

Windows Remote Desktop would be nice, but I've never gotten it to work through the Internet.

[#Michael]

All you have to do is forward port 3389 to your LAN ip, then connect to your WAN ip. and you are done.

 

 

If you want to go this route, I would suggest changing your rdp port number to a random one.  Just my 2 cents.

[Dot Matrix]

I'm not going that route. Then again, the machine I'm remoting into doesn't have anything on it but a vanilla install of Windows 7.