How to connect to another PC?

[Born2Juice4Ever]

CBB,

Ok so i am not an engineer hu? Fine, I can use google, I have done a little programming in the past, I can do a bit when it comes to PC software---not so much hardware.

I have a PC at my office space, and I have a PC at home. I want to be able to connect from home to office or vise versa.---I am owner of both, and nobody else touches my PCs.

I am having a little difficulty doing so. Can somebody post info on this please?

B2J

[pinhead]

Gotomypc seems to be a popular software everyone uses.

[RagingRandy]

Do you have access through your corporate firewall?

[Namelessone]

Here bro, use this. It comes with a free trial.

http://www.gotoassist.com/tr/G2W_home

This program will give you complete control over your office workstation from home. The catch, you need admin rights at work on your workstation in order to install it. I use to use this program for tech support when I owned an IT company (now sold to an American firm). My end users would simply sit back and I would control their computers and fix the problems.

Any novice can use it too. Just read the instructions on their website. This software is so powerful all of the biggest companies use it (Dell, Gateway, D-Link etc)

[gsxr750]

If your work's IT guy knows what he's doing chances are you wont be able to connect direct to your internal network as Randy mentioned.

I'd bet you're behind a firewall and it's set up in NAT and you will need to have some configuration adjustments made on the switch/router to be able to tunnel in to your PC, but try it I guess.

I'd suggest VNC.

[macka]

try using hamachi

[Born2Juice4Ever]

Hey guys,

thank you very much for the links and advise.
These are both my PCs, one of them is at home, and the other one is at my office at the restaurant.--the restaurant PC is not hooked to any corporate servers or such.

I will give some of the software mentioned here a try sometime today :)


B2J

[RagingRandy]

^^^^ If that is the case Go To MyPC is great. I have used it without issue.

[ZeOne]

Hey B2J4E,

What do you want to do exactly on your controlled PC? do you want to access only shared drives, or do you want to be able to remote control the computer?

For drive access try Hamachi which is a great product that creates virtual LANs and LAN clusters and you can add a PC to this LAN from anywhere on the planet provided you have Internet connection.

For remote controlling, I would personally recommand Logmein.

Both these 2 software are from the same software development house and both are *HIGHLY* efficient at penetrating firewalls and proxys.

Let us know how it goes.

Links are:

http://www.logmein.com
https://secure.logmein.com/products/hamachi/vpn.asp?lang=en



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[rufusrocks]

[QUOTE=ZeOne;152566]Hey B2J4E,

What do you want to do exactly on your controlled PC? do you want to access only shared drives, or do you want to be able to remote control the computer?

For drive access try Hamachi which is a great product that creates virtual LANs and LAN clusters and you can add a PC to this LAN from anywhere on the planet provided you have Internet connection.

For remote controlling, I would personally recommand Logmein.

Both these 2 software are from the same software development house and both are *HIGHLY* efficient at penetrating firewalls and proxys.

Let us know how it goes.


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my reply starts below, sorry zeone i edited too much!!!!!

wow am i ever out of the loop now. i used to work with os/390's, helped IBM develop the first paging escalating system via rs232 in tandem with Os/2 running AIX emulators. virtual lan clusters and VPN's man i could work for the feds and sniff anybody out. IT is getting lazy and stupid...

why not just a 16 gb stick... much safer if your network is not secure...

. any shareware product is useless and not secure. keep it simple just use a stick. in fact why not just bring your laptop home. i would. PCANYWHERE was good if it was installed and configured properly.

sorry if i went awry. some good advice i think from the aforementioned threads. keep it simple, it's safer...

[liquidfire]

If you just need access to files you could look at setting up an SSH server on your work computer. I've got one set up on my webserver at home and I can map it like a drive wherever I am.