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An instant messenger with remote access

September 9th, 2006

Cspace promises an instant messenger with file sharing, remote access and a high security level. A beta product which seems a viable alternative to other desktop sharing products.

When I help family and friends with IT problems remote access to their desktop has been extremely useful. Control of the desktop speeds up the process of detecting the problem and finding a solution compared to the situation when I rely on phone descriptions. The current solutions I know of have different weaknesses. Like the price, that some are Windows only, that some are insecure or that it is difficult to establish a connection when people use nat-routers to share an Internet connection.

Cspace features

The features of c-space is that it provides you with a decentralised encrypted instant messaging service. Which should provide a high level of security. The second feature is the possibility to transfer files between, and the main feature is the possibility to remotely control the desktop.

Using cspace

Even though cspace is beta software, it seems to be pretty functional. The documentation however is scarce. It is however pretty simple to set it up, I however had a bit of trouble in making it work with the firewalls on the two test systems (norton and zonelabs). But that seems to be something which should be solvable. It however established a connection over the Internet and through two nat-routers without any problems, and with the firewalls turned of, it was also established a remote access connection.

All in all, a promising software which I will be trying out some more later.

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