Conducting Live Preview of a Remote Disk

 

Prior to previewing remote disk users will need to create a PDServer disk and run PDserver on the remote system.

1. Once PDServer is running on the remote system, from within an active project in ProDiscover® use the "Network" menu to select "Connect To..." and the following dialog box will appear.

 

 

2. If the user is connecting to a PDServer running in Stealth Mode with a password set the ProDiscover® client will display a dialog box asking for the password prior to connection. Even if encryption mode is not set for encryption is used to create a secure channel for all communications setup to prevent password sniffing and man-in-the middle attacks.

 

 

3. Once the connection is established users would follow standard procedures for previewing a directly connected disk. Previewing speed can vary greatly and is dependant on many factors such as network topology and performance. When encryption mode is set the added overhead can reduce preview performance by up to a factor of two.