Re: Proposed: gnome-nettool

[Calum Benson <Calum Benson Sun COM>]

Germán Poó Caamaño wrote:

> For instance, I could try to help my mom and I could try to connect
> to her computer using Vino... but:
>
> Me:  Mom, what's is your IP?

Vino was designed such that you don't normally need to have that 
conversation, though-- the remote user should only have to open the vino 
capplet, at which point they can send you an email with all the info you 
need to connect by clicking on the link in the dialog.  That feature 
does of course require that the remote user's machine be reachable from 
yours, though, which may not be the case in ISP-land, or if lack of 
network connectivity is the problem they're trying to solve in the first 
place :)

Cheeri,
Calum.

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