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Rick B
Citizen
Username: Ruck1977
Post Number: 782
Registered: 8-2003
| | Posted on Friday, June 17, 2005 - 11:39 am: |     |
Just polling to see if anyone knows of good remote connectivity software. Not so much the kind you would use to connect from other locations (like WebEx), but perhaps more of the type you might use on your own home network.
Remote Desktop would be great, but I am going from XP home to XP home. Not possible with the inherent tools. Basically, I am thinking of moving one of my PC's to a different floor and only accessing it remotely (unless I have to go there).
I have used PCAnywhere in the past, as well as a product called VNC.
Any suggestions would be great! Thanks. |
Tom Reingold
Supporter
Username: Noglider
Post Number: 7638
Registered: 1-2003
| | Posted on Friday, June 17, 2005 - 12:13 pm: | |
Those are good. I hear that so is GoToMyPC. Another one of those good products with a stupid name. |
LazyDog
Citizen
Username: Lazydog
Post Number: 34
Registered: 6-2005
| | Posted on Friday, June 17, 2005 - 5:41 pm: | |
PCAnywhere or Dameware. |
Network & PC Care
Citizen
Username: Npccare
Post Number: 18
Registered: 5-2005
| | Posted on Friday, June 17, 2005 - 11:00 pm: | |
Have you thought about upgrading one of the computers to XP pro to allow you to connect to that computer?
Just a thought. You can find some websites that sell XP pro upgrade CD's for $50 or so.
It is easy, it works well, and it could be the cheapest option.
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monster
Supporter
Username: Monster
Post Number: 871
Registered: 7-2002
| | Posted on Friday, June 17, 2005 - 11:30 pm: | |
http://www.realvnc.com/
That being said, I connect to my XP box all the time from my iBook using Remote Desktop Connection. |
Rastro
Citizen
Username: Rastro
Post Number: 1136
Registered: 5-2004
| | Posted on Monday, June 20, 2005 - 3:24 pm: | |
I'm a huge fan of VNC (I use RealVNC and TightVNC). It's pretty easy to set up, espeically if you primarily use it on a home network. Set it up as a service, and you're done. Use any VNC client (or the java cilent) and it's as if you are right on the other machine. There can be a bit of latency, but if you drop down the colors to 256, and turn off certain window polling features, you can clean up quite a bit of that slowness.
But as with any task, the real question should be, what do you want to do with this remote access? |
Rick B
Citizen
Username: Ruck1977
Post Number: 788
Registered: 8-2003
| | Posted on Monday, June 20, 2005 - 3:54 pm: | |
I have been trialing RealVNC for the past few days now and am pretty happy with it. Really what I want to be able to do is control the other PC. I am using it as a type of media server, so most of what is being done does not require me to log into the server, but as long as I can get on it remotely that should be great.
Thanks everyone for your suggestions. |
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