When comparing TightVNC vs mRemoteNG, the Slant community recommends TightVNC for most people. In the question“What are the best Remote Desktop tools for Windows?” TightVNC is ranked 2nd while mRemoteNG is ranked 14th. The most important reason people chose TightVNC is:
TightVNC has some good file transfer capability with which you can transfer files back and forth with your remote system.
Specs
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Pros
Pro File transfer capability
TightVNC has some good file transfer capability with which you can transfer files back and forth with your remote system.
Pro It's free
Open source.
Pro Import/Export feature
Allows to share connections.
Pro Can open multiple sessions in different tabs
Pro Connection manager
Lets you organize your connections into folders with icons as well and allows nested folders as well.
Pro Supports multiple protocols
RDP (Remote Desktop/Terminal Server)
VNC (Virtual Network Computing)
ICA (Citrix Independent Computing Architecture)
SSH (Secure Shell)
Telnet (TELecommunication NETwork)
HTTP/HTTPS (Hypertext Transfer Protocol)
rlogin
Raw Socket Connections
Pro Inheritance from folder properties
Inheritance makes it possible to store properties on folder basis and let the underlying connections inherit this info.
Cons
Con Needs port forwarding activated
In order to use TightVNC you need to have port forwarding activated within your router.
Con Private keys needs to be managed on PuTTY
Since mRemoteNG is integrated with PuTTY (included in the installation), all private key needs to be configured on PuTTY itself and then the PuTTY session needs to be selected on mRemoteNG.