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ShareTool

ShareTool

Securely access your Bonjour services from anywhere.

Version:  1.3.4

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Good but one thing missing

Feedback Type:  Review

Contributed by: fusion--2008 Wednesday, October 14 2009 @ 06:16 AM PDT

Product Platform: MacOSX

Used Product For: 6-12 months

Recommend Product: YES

The product is good, with very good ease-of-use and interface. Secure screen sharing and data transfer via SSH works well.
One thing is missing for a true remote control: if the remote computer shuts down and restarts, there is no way to log in since ShareTool only starts working once login is done. So login must be done with a competing product, e.g. Timbuktu, which fills this gap. This feature seems indispensable to me - if I want to control a computer remotely, I want to stay in control!
Minor bugs which have cropped up from time to time have been fixed. Right now there is a problem with interaction with the KeyChain in Snow Leopard which will no doubt be fixed soon.
The product advertises on-the-fly compression for data transfer, but is nevertheless no faster than a competing product (iGet) which doesn't do this.
Upon sharing, ShareTool can alert the start of sharing via e-mail. However, the e-mail gives only the local IP number, which is useless for connecting via port forwarding if the remote computer is behind a router with dynamic IP address. It should also give the external IP (like GetMyIP or DynDNS) and include it in the e-mail.
  
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2 comments |

Good but one thing missing - Yazsoft

Thanks for the feedback.

Some of the things you mention are already available in ShareTool. Please email me directly at info at yazsoft dot com and Ill be happy to assist you.

Johnny

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Wednesday, October 14 2009 @ 01:51 PM PDT


Good but one thing missing - Yazsoft

Please visit our forums to discuss this:

http://www.yazsoft.com/f/

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Saturday, October 17 2009 @ 01:27 PM PDT