Solution for Remote Access to and from Win 3.x?

[Shintaro1969]

Hi,

I was wondering what solution(s) exist to remote access another Windows version from Win 3.x?

There is PcAnywhere, and I think VNC, but finding a 16-bit VNC seems to be a challenge.

Is there an RDP client? There is MSTSC on XP, anything like that for Win 3.x?

Cheers,
Craig

[vbdasc]

Offtopic: There is RDP client for Windows 95 from Microsoft, called RDP client version 5.2 . It's relatively easy to find. I've never seen one for 16-bit Windows, although I've seen mentions of it here and there.

P.S. http://toastytech.com/guis/remotets.html says that it exists, though still no link

P.P.S. There is something called "16-bit TS client" on the Windows NT 4.0 Terminal Server CD. It might be RDP client for Windows 3.1, or not.

[adun]

If I recall correctly there should be a folder on the Windows 2000 cd (or was in in the Resource Kit?) called "TSCLIENT" that contains RDP clients:
16 bit for windows 3.x
and
32 bit for Windows 9x and NT 3.5x / NT 4.0

[DOS]

For remote access *to* Windows 3.x, I think what you really need is software for remote access to DOS that supports graphics modes, although some of them might have special performance enhancements for Windows. I don't ever recall any remote access software that only worked in Windows 3.x, but then stopped when you exited to DOS, although that's not to say none existed.

Off the top of my head:
- pcAnywhere
- Commute from Central Point's PC-Tools
- https://josh.com/tiny/: I haven't tried this but have heard of it quite a bit. I'm not sure if it actually supports Windows 3.x but I suspect it might.

[Shintaro1969]

For remote access *to* Windows 3.x, I think what you really need is software for remote access to DOS that supports graphics modes, although some of them might have special performance enhancements for Windows. I don't ever recall any remote access software that only worked in Windows 3.x, but then stopped when you exited to DOS, although that's not to say none existed.

Off the top of my head:
- pcAnywhere
- Commute from Central Point's PC-Tools
- https://josh.com/tiny/: I haven't tried this but have heard of it quite a bit. I'm not sure if it actually supports Windows 3.x but I suspect it might.

Doh!
I downloaded PC-Tools about a year ago when I was looking for a replacement for XTree, but never looked any further because I thought Norton Commander was good.

If people are interested, here is a 10 minute guide to PC-Tools Ver.8:
https://archive.org/details/10minutegui ... 0kray_n1s7

Tiny looks good, I'll give it a go.

[DOS]

Oops, your mentioning version 8 of PC-Tools reminds me that I know Commute was in version 7, but I'm not sure if it was in 8 or 9 - I think it got removed.

[Shintaro1969]

Oops, your mentioning version 8 of PC-Tools reminds me that I know Commute was in version 7, but I'm not sure if it was in 8 or 9 - I think it got removed.

I am messing around with 8.0 now. Commute is in it.

[Fork]

I've been looking for something to do this as well, and whilst I can't offer a good solution I can certainly tell you to avoid pcAnywhere! I tried both version 2.0 and 8.0 on Windows 3.11 (running as the Host, so I could connect to it from my regular Windows 10 PC) and whilst it technically worked it would cause the CPU to ramp up to 100% almost immediately - I could hear the CPU fan going crazy after a minute or so. And this was without me even connecting from my Win10 PC - just sitting idle it would cause the CPU in my DOS/Win311 laptop to skyrocket!