VNC Mocha Lite Allows You To Remotely Connect Your iPhone To Your Desktop Computer

Mocha VNC Lite

Free
Business Category
Developed by MochaSoft

iTunes Link

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The VNC application was available for jailbroken iPhones, and we were surprised that it wasn't in the app store at launch. Regardless, here it is. The application allows you to remotely connect to your desktop computer from your iPhone.

The VNC Lite Menu - edit connections, get help, and read about section. The "Edit Connections" will be the only button that concerns you.

The VNC Lite Connection Settings - just enter your IP address, VNC server port, and password, and you're good to go.

This is the loading screen of the VNC Lite app.

Here's VNC Lite in action - our iPhone is connected to our PC.

Here's our iPhone connected to our Mac. The warning logo is simply saying that the high resolution of our Mac isn't supported by the iPhone, so it shrinks the screen to the max size. Not a problem - just press OK.

Here we have our iPhone connected to our Mac - you can see the Mac Dock.

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• Mocha VNC provides access to a VNC server
• Using your iPhone, you can connect to a Windows PC or Mac OS X and see the files, programs, and resources exactly as you would if you were sitting at your desk.
• Features:
  • Standard VNC protocol with encrypted password signon
  • 8 and 32 bit color modes
  • Server screen resolution up to 1680x1200
  • Local mouse support
  • Zoom and scroll as the Safari browser
  • Landscape mode
  • Can handle 6 host configurations
  • Has been tested with RealVNC, TightVNC, UltrVNC on Windows, and Apple Remote Management, which is included with the Mac OS X.    

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• Simple interface
• Enough functionality to get by if you need an urgent remote connection
• It took no time at all to configure the application and connect to both PC and MAC (note: both computers already had VNC configured)
• Information is well integrated between multiple features of the application
• Extensive Help menu

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• There are a few annoying bugs with the saved connections (they sometimes disappear)
• Support for QWERTY keyboard only
• No support for macros
• The screen took a while to load after connecting to a Mac, so we had to manually click refresh for the screen to change. On the other hand, we didn't have time to optimize the screen setting for a better connection
• When switiching to mouse control, the cursor is not very responsive
• Your computer needs to be unlocked in order to connect to Mocha VNC Lite, otherwise the connection will be refused

The Mocha VNC Pro version will be out soon for $5.99 with additional keyboard support and macro support.

UPDATE: By popular demand we will do a full post on how to configure your PC and MAC for VNC connection from iPhone.  Subscribe to our RSS feed for the updates,

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See also:

http://www.ismashphone.com/2008/07/red-iphone-3g.html

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• How to get Playboy and Penthouse Free On Your iPhone


• All The iPhone 3G Cases

Comments

[DreamZzz]

Big thanks for the video. I made this VNC thing to work from my iPhone to Vista PC.

[Jonathan Hoyt]

Curious, does it support landscape mode? I use VNC all day long at work, and sometimes when I'm on the road and a client needs help its nice to be able to pull over and remote access their machine, so this should be neat... Thanks for the hard work :-)

[eric dude]

So is this a VNC or RDC client? The term remote desktop was used as well as vnc. Regardless, linux has VNC and RDC connection support so you should be able to connect to all the major OSs out there. Knowing about the need to refresh w/ mac is a huge turn off. VNSEA available via installer or cydia can connect to any machine running vnc server (bundled w/ vista, os x, and most linux distros, and readily availible for XP at no charge).

[MartinAllchin]

Eric, it would appear to be VNC. Remote desktop is a generic term -- blame Microsoft for the confusion. Unless someone says RDP assume it could be any remote desktop protocol.

[Justin Bean]

Dude I think I am starting to like this IPhone. If only it could act as a modem!

JT
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[iSmashPhone]

@Jonathan Hoyt: Yes, landscape mode is supported
@eric dude: We had to refresh on mac only because we were connected at very high resolution and it was taking some time to load. Other people did not report any problems.

[Brian]

So glad to see this!! Thanks for putting it out.

Is an SSH client next?

[ramon]

what is in that last picture just before the video in the dock of your computer a little brown monster hah what is that program??

[Patrick]

this is probably a stupid question but will this still work if i am in a classroom that does not have wifi internet access?

i teach personal fitness and there is no wifi access in the gym building. i would LOVE to use this for my power point presentations each week rather than having a student sit by the computer and hit a button for me. i know it works at home with wifi but i was wondering about the situation at work.

thanks!

[TheMacThinker]

A couple more iterations and this will be quite handy.

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http://www.MostOfMyMac.com

[Ann O'nymous]

Where is the option to enter a username? Or is this anonymous access only?

[tequilatamm]

Hey everyone.

Installed RealVNC Personal on our 32-bit Vista machine, and tried connecting from iPhone using VNC MochaLite.

Didn't get an error, but the connection just never resolves. It sits in the "negotiating" stage until you kill it.

To get to VNC on that computer we just put in the IP Address of the computer running RealVNC Personal Server.

Also port forwarded port 5900 to the IP of the computer running VNC Server on our router and tried connecting to our external IP to see if we could get in that way.

Same thing. No joy. Just sits there forever trying to negotiate. I read somewhere that not all the VNC Server programs deal properly with Vista and am wondering if there is a particular one that people have had luck with. I also read that RealVNC Enterprise is needed to get from iPhone to Vista. Anyone know if this is correct?

[Greg]

Cannot connect yet, what are the network settings are necessary on the mac? I am using IP 10.1.1.99 and port 5900, but it will not connect.

Any ideas? Thanks

[kyle]

at first i could not get VNCML to work on my iPhone, so I connected to wifi instead of using 3G/Edge, and it worked fine. i guess it just doesn't work on 3G/Edge and only on wifi... idk why. hopefully the next version will support 3G/Edge.

[ben]

how do i find out my VNC password and ip ? im a little lost here

[i_want_candie]

thanks for introducing me to this! i read on vnc lite's site that they don't support multi/dual screen, so i only see my 'secondary' screen when it connects...any ideas on how to tweak the setup that it defaults to my main screen (instead of the secondary one)? thanks!

[Vic]

I have managed to get this working with my mac. Only one BIG QUESTION:
Does this program NOT WORK if you are using your iphone on a wifi network DIFFERENT from that your computer is connected to? I tried getting it to work off a different wifi connection i had on my iphone at a different location and it didn't work. Then when i came back home and logged the phone onto the same wifi my mac is on, it worked fine.
Comments / advise please..

[Vic]

I have managed to get this working with my mac. Only one BIG QUESTION:
Does this program NOT WORK if you are using your iphone on a wifi network DIFFERENT from that your computer is connected to? I tried getting it to work off a different wifi connection i had on my iphone at a different location and it didn't work. Then when i came back home and logged the phone onto the same wifi my mac is on, it worked fine.
Comments / advise please..

[JTM]

I have the same problem - It works fine when I'm on my home wi-fi connection but as soon as I leave home and connect to another wi-fi network, or Edge, I can't connect to VNC. Is there something we may have overlooked? Thank you.

[JTM]

I have the same problem - It works fine when I'm on my home wi-fi connection but as soon as I leave home and connect to another wi-fi network, or Edge, I can't connect to VNC. Is there something we may have overlooked? Thank you.

[JTM]

I have the same problem - It works fine when I'm on my home wi-fi connection but as soon as I leave home and connect to another wi-fi network, or Edge, I can't connect to VNC. Is there something we may have overlooked? Thank you.

[Nhi Mi]

I have the same problem - It works fine when I'm on my home wi-fi connection but as soon as I leave home and connect to another wi-fi network, or Edge, I can't connect to VNC. Is there something we may have overlooked? Thank you.

[Danielle]

I'll echo the above re: this seemingly not functioning over 3G or if the iPhone is on a different network than the VNC server, which kind of defeats the whole purpose of VNC. It would be very helpful to get a definitive answer.

[Danielle]

Ok, I'll respond to my own comment, since I finally got this working over 3G (albeit very slowly). Follow the instructions here:
http://www.realvnc.com/support/portforward.html

[iSmashPhone]

Just a word of caution.
VNC connection from iPhone to your computer is not secure.
Also, having ports open on your router poses security risk.

Best set-up is VNC via SSH or connecting over VPN. None of the option are available at this time.

Be advise about security issues with using VNC over 3g to your computer with port forwarding configured.