Famatech heeft enkele dagen geleden de eerste bètarelease van Remote Administrator versie 3.0 uitgebracht. Met dit programma kan een Windows-computer gemakkelijk en veilig op afstand worden beheerd. Nieuw in deze release is een intelligentere interface, een verbeterde beveiliging en is ook de snelheid verbeterd. Verder is zijn er ook multiuser chat- en voice chat-mogelijkheden aan het pakket toegevoegd. Deze bètarelease kan 90 dagen worden geprobeerd, maar houd er wel rekening mee dat het product nog niet 'af' is en er enkele dingen niet of nog niet volledig werken. Zo is het nog niet compatibel met versie 2.x, werkt het nog niet volledig met Windows 95 of NT en doet ook de Get/Set remote clipboard het nog niet. De volledige release notes van deze bètarelease zien er als volgt uit:
Main Radmin Viewer window:Remote Screen Window:
- Folders in Radmin phonebook.
- Explorer-like tree view window with Radmin folders.
- Drag and drop of items and folders.
- Radmin phonebook stored in the file.
- Export-import phonebook files.
- Save column sizes and window position of main window.
- Options dialog in main window.
- Defaults for new connections in options.
- Global options for Remote Screen, File transfer, Chat, Audio Chat in the Main window options.
- Scan for running Radmin Servers.
- Minimize viewer main window to icon.
- Ability to create shortcuts to phonebook items on desktop.
New connection modes:
- True ?olor support
- Remote Screen Toolbar.
- Multiple monitors support.
- Smooth scaling (stretching) feature.
- Special keystrokes handling (Alt-Tab, Windows key, etc).
- Mouse wheel support.
- Choice of F12 key support (global settings).
- More options to send keys (Print Screen, …)
- Fast launch of other connections (file transfer, chat, voice, telnet) from Remote Screen window without entering passwords again.
- Server cursor support in two ways: replace local cursor and draw remote cursor with the screen updates.
- Fullscreen view when remote screen size is less then local (black canvas).
Radmin Server:
- Multi-user chat.
- Multi-user audio chat.
Security
- Compatibility with Windows XP multiple user sessions.
- New video hook driver.
- Support of sending cursor shape and position.
- New options interface.
- New login/password settings interface.
- Multiple monitors support.
Compatibility with v2.x is not supported in the current beta release from 11-May-2006
- Advanced 256 bit AES encryption for all sending and receiving data.
- New Radmin security supports Users with individual rights.
- Radmin security uses new authentication method based on Diffie-Hellman exchange with 2048 bit key size.
- Kerberos support.
- Capability to bind to the network interfaces.
- DNS name and user name info added to the logfile.
Some features planned for future updates[break]
- Callback functionality: Radmin Server can connect to Radmin Client.
- Full screen text mode support.
- Choice of font to be used to display full screen mode.
- Support of disabling the server’s mouse and keyboard.
- Remote printing support.
- Blank user screen support.