Accessing my PC remotely?

[orion23]

Hi!

I have a Dell PC @ my office, running XP Pro. I mainly use quickbooks and a food menu program.

I would like to be able to run those 2 programs from my home PC and even print the menus and update information (payroll, bills...)

What is the best program that I can use for this?

Symantec's PC anywhere is $200

RealVNC is $100 for 2 licenses

Free VNC? Could I use this?

What about Microsoft's own remote PC software?

Thank you in advance!

 

[BZeto]

UltraVNC.

It also depends on how your work network/firewall is set up. The VNC ports are most likely blocked by default. Does your work have a vpn?

 

[dphantom]

Second vote for UltraVNC. But you do need the appropriate ports open on your firewall.

 

[Red Squirrel]

Another option is a SSH tunnel. Setup SSH on a Linux box, change the port to something common like 21 or maybe even 80 so you can bypass the firewall. (if its port based, if it uses SPI and blocks SSH you're out of luck) So what you do is use putty or other program to SSH in, configure a tunnel to the RDP port of a windows machine, or any other port you want on your network, and you'll have access through a secure encrypted tunnel without exposing the resource to public. At work you'd RDP to 127.0.0.1 which would actually be whatever you setup as the tunnel. You could even setup email this way if you wanted.

 

[TC10284]

Logmein.com - I use it for some PCs behind a corporate firewall at school that I manage. I don't have access to the firewall. The free version is totally awesome.

On LANs, I use either Remote Desktop from MS or UltraVNC

 

[orion23]

It's not my work, but my own office.

That computer + the one @ home are using routers which I guess make things a bit more complicated.

 

[JackMDS]

These two pages would help.

Connecting through the Internet to a Home / SOHO Computer / Server - http://www.ezlan.net/myip.html


UltraVNC Safe Remote Control - http://www.ezlan.net/vnc.html

 

[orion23]

Thank you all for the help!

I'll try things with the UltraVNC... Thanks for those links!

 

[TC10284]

Originally posted by: orion23
It's not my work, but my own office.

That computer + the one @ home are using routers which I guess make things a bit more complicated.

Not with LogMeIn.