"Leythos" <void@nowhere.lan> wrote in message
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> On Wed, 31 Jan 2007 23:41:30 -0600, Vanguard wrote:
>
>> "Leythos" <void@nowhere.lan> wrote in message
>> news:1170294030_2199@sp6iad.superfeed.net...
>>> On Wed, 31 Jan 2007 19:34:05 -0600, Vanguard wrote:
>>>
>>>> "Leythos" wrote in message
>>>> news:1170205581_8027@sp6iad.superfeed.net...
>>>>>
>>>>> Vanguard wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> So father-in-law gets stuck paying $20/month just because
>>>>>> son-in-law
>>>>>> is
>>>>>> too lazy to call father-in-law on the phone and have
>>>>>> father-in-law
>>>>>> act
>>>>>> the automatron to follow son-in-law's instructions? And for
>>>>>> once-in-a-blue-moon assistance from son-in-law? GTMP is hardly a
>>>>>> financially sound solution for the OP's original stipulation of
>>>>>> providing occasional help to father-in-law. GTMP is more for
>>>>>> users
>>>>>> that
>>>>>> want repeat and often remote access to their hosts. Doesn't
>>>>>> sound
>>>>>> like
>>>>>> what the OP is asking about, and father-in-law ends up footing
>>>>>> the
>>>>>> bill.
>>>>>
>>>>> You are aware that you can try GTMP for free for 30 days or so....
>>>>
>>>> One month of "maintenance" by son-in-law won't be of much help to
>>>> father-in-law.
>>>
>>> Ah, but you don't seem to understand that once the Son-in law is in
>>> using
>>> GTMP that he can make the changes/adjustments so that he can get in
>>> using
>>> VNC or some other method. Think in broader terms.
>>
>>
>> Have you read their Terms of Service?
>>
>> "At the end of the trial period You will be automatically subscribed
>> and
>> we will bill your credit card for the fees to the Service plan You
>> selected at registration or to a default Service plan for trial
>> subscribers selected by Citrix Online. ... If You wish to terminate
>> the
>> trial and do not wish to subscribe to a plan, You must cancel before
>> the
>> end of your trial period."
>>
>> That's an old but effective ploy to bilk a significant number of
>> "trial"
>> users out of, at least, one month's fees. The user will typically
>> not
>> remember to cancel the trial before it ends or mistakeningly believes
>> that it is really without strings attached - until they get charged
>> and
>> then cancels but by then ends up paying for that "free" month of use
>> (by
>> getting forced into another involuntary suscription to the next month
>> that is billed in *advance*). Of course, since you must cancel
>> *before*
>> the end of the trial means you really don't get the full period of
>> the
>> trial. Cancelling after the end of the trial means you already got
>> automatically subscribed.
>>
>> So father-in-law has to spend the time figuring out how to subscribe,
>> install software, decide on a passcode and do whatever minimally is
>> required, like configure his software firewall to allow GTMP to
>> accept
>> unsolicited inbound connects, before son-in-law can install the
>> *actual*
>> remote access solution and father-in-law has to remember to cancel
>> the
>> "trial" before it ends so he doesn't get charged. Citrix aren't
>> dummies
>> in marketing, ya know.
>
> You know, this was a really simple thing - the OP wanted to support
> his
> relatives system, asked about means, GTMP was discussed with other
> products. GTMP is available on a trial basis, does not require any
> technical skill, and is FREE, allows the OP to gain access to setup
> any
> other method once he's in... You keep finding ways to divert from the
> fact
> that it would be simple, allows all the requirements, and works.
>
> Are you trolling now?


You keep trying to spam the product while claiming it is so easy to
install, configure, and use and yet for what it takes I can't see it is
any harder than the son-in-law making a simple phone call to
father-in-law to guide him through a VNC install, or to enable Remote
Desktop that may already BE there in Windows. While I knock down your
points, you keep coming back to spam the product. If the OP wants to go
with GTMP then great for the OP, but it is not the miracle cure you
claim it to be.