Controlling Mach3 through RDP/VNC set-up?

[alpinasjofallet]

Is it possible to control a mach 3 set-up through remote desktop or VNC?

It will be a neat solution to just mount a Mini-itx logic board in the box with the cnc controller (no keyboard, no mouse and no display), and just control it through a laptop.

But will the remote controlling mess up with the precious timings on the parallel port? Anyone tried this?

[tumutbound]

I can't see a problem with parallel port timing as the mini-itx running Mach 3 will be handling all that. You'll just be using RDP/VNC for the display and input.
At worst, your DRO display in Mach 3 may lag a little.

I've been doing this just recently. The machine with Mach 3 installed is upstairs and to avoid the climb, I've been running VNC from a laptop. Note that this is just for getting familiar with Mach 3, no cutting attempted as yet. In fact, no cnc router is connected as yet, just a controller via the parallel port.
FWIW, my Mach 3 computer is a pentium 4 with 1 GB memory and inbuilt Intel graphics - so far, so good.

[XYZ_dude]

ok i tried this as well. but i cant figure out how to depress a button and hold it like jogging, otherwise works no problem i just downloaded free lite version for ipad then the free server from realvnc etc..