VNC isn't a drag.

April 4, 2008 7:46 AM

Is there a VNC variant that will allow a windows user to drag and drop files from the desktop into the VNC window?

We can't use RDP for reasons that are not network related.

posted by photodegas to Computers & Internet (3 answers total)

Does it have to be drag and drop? The VNC variant I use - TightVNC - has file transfer support. I'd never used it before now to verify that it works but it seemed to have moved this file over pretty painlessly.
posted by phearlez at 8:36 AM on April 4, 2008

Ultravnc has file transfer, but its not drag and drop. You want to switch to Remote Desktop for that.
posted by damn dirty ape at 9:56 AM on April 4, 2008

I've been struggling with this same issue. The VNC protocol doesn't really support file transfers, so what I've been doing is file transfers via an FTP server which is set up on the computer you're VNCing into. Then I can drag and drop files from the computer from which I'm viewing the VNC session on to a folder, and they appear on the remote computer in wherever the FTP root is set to.
posted by fvox13 at 11:40 AM on April 4, 2008