Splashtop has been updated to survive reboots.

Originally Posted by Beryl

Splashtop has been updated to survive reboots.

I wonder if it works well on password protected machines. I just noticed that they raised the price to $9.99.

Originally Posted by info

I wonder if it works well on password protected machines. I just noticed that they raised the price to $9.99.

It worked on my password protected win7 laptop. It was a little flakey during the reboot but exiting, closing out, and then restarting the iPad app made it reconnect with no further issues. I entered the laptop password and the desktop appeared.

Does it work from a cold boot or is it just restarts?

Originally Posted by Beryl

It worked on my password protected win7 laptop. It was a little flakey during the reboot but exiting, closing out, and then restarting the iPad app made it reconnect with no further issues. I entered the laptop password and the desktop appeared.

"I entered the laptop password and the desktop appeared."

I was able to do that once, and then I couldn't get through. I believe it may have been because it took a while for me to update the laptop software. I'll check. Thanks Beryl.

I agree with iphy and abblePC. I tried both of those apps and i was a cool and easy to use.

Originally Posted by info

I'll check.

I am now able to reboot remotely (restart) and login in without a problem.

Any update to how you got on?

Did any of your computers time out and logout from logmein?

I'm interested to know myself, I guess leaving the computer on but the monitor off would also work

Originally Posted by Allan_Vancouver

I purchased and installed LogMeIn on my iPad, and also installed the free apps on my iMac, Win7, XP and Vista virtual and real machines.
It works quite well, except for a few glitches on the Vista real PC. I have VMWare Fusion on my iMac with Win7 and XP virtual machines. If I start everything and have the LogMeIn apps installed on the real Mac and the two virtual Windows machines, I can control any one of them.

The VMWare Tools software conflicts with the LogMeIn software on the Mac so that it is not possible to access the virtual guests from the Mac desktop. It is possible however to access the two virtual machines under separate sessions on the iPad.

It may be normal for the Windows LogMeIn software, but they switch the PC (real or virtual) to a solid colour background instead of a picture when a LogMeIn session is active. They revert to the photo background when the session from the iPad ends.

Sometimes on the real Windows Vista machine the full desktop doesn't display on the iPad. This may also be a display driver conflict on the PC. Sometimes it works ok, such as when I switch to a second Windows user and back.

I'm travelling April 18-22 with just my iPad and with all my home computers left running (iMac, Windows Vista, and 2 virtual machines running under VMWare on the Mac). I will test remote access and report back here in the forums.

Well so far OS X Lion has killed all my Mac remote control apps that I had been using: Pocket Cloud and Splashtop. Tried iTap VNC and it wouldn't work either. The issue is that Lion is now a true multiuser OS now so you must logon to the Mac remotely using user credentials. Simple going in using VNC, or a VNC password, will not work.

I am not sure what the issue is with Splashtop but it only goes to a black screen and on the Mac itself shows it needs attention.

After having no luck with Pocket Cloud I have now used the iOS app Screens to successfully control my Lion Macs. So right now for Mac remote control under Lion, it seems to do the trick.

Honestly Lion has been available in beta for quite some time and it's kind of upsetting that iOS apps that are purchased--not always inexpensively for iOS apps--cannot be used for their intended purpose. From what I am getting it would have been easy tweaks to make them Lion-friendly.






Michael

My vote goes to Jaadu VNC for iPad, simply because it's a little cheaper than LogMeIn Ignition.