remote desktop-ing
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Morning.
I currently run LogMeIn to allow access to my home machine via HTTP, which is just dandy. However it isn't the most efficient of clients.
Is there a better solution that I could be using, to connect to a machine running Windows XP Home, preferably that runs over HTTP Port 80?
I currently run LogMeIn to allow access to my home machine via HTTP, which is just dandy. However it isn't the most efficient of clients.
Is there a better solution that I could be using, to connect to a machine running Windows XP Home, preferably that runs over HTTP Port 80?
Famatech Radmin (configurable port). We and our business partners use it for dozens of clients on a daily basis. It is reliable, secure, efficient and sooooo easy to set up. Alternatively, UltraVNC is free but more complex to configure.
Hope this helps.
Hope this helps.
roadsweeper said:
Famatech Radmin (configurable port). We and our business partners use it for dozens of clients on a daily basis. It is reliable, secure, efficient and sooooo easy to set up. Alternatively, UltraVNC is free but more complex to configure.
Hope this helps.
Hope this helps.
UltraVNC is a possibility, but not fully understanding the vaugeries of networks, if I setup UltraVNC to run on port 80, won't that intercept all port 80 requests and screw up using http on that machine for general web etc...?
Found these guys www.teamviewer.com/ anybody used this client?
trooperiziz said:
sneakyneil said:
You can change the port that RDP uses quite easily (to port 80), google has the answer!
Does google answer how to get RDP on a Home machine?
Sadly no
but to answer the question re. VNC on port 80 - if you can get it to accept connections on port 80 it would have no effect on outgoing port 80 traffic, only incomming.Similarly, I would like to be able to have remote access to my dad's PC (I've just set his shiny new Dell up for him!)
With the old PC, every few weeks I would get a phone call: "This icon has disappeared..... The Virus scanner says it can't update..... I can't get the computer to make the tea....." You know the kind of thing.
Whenever I went round, the problems were usually PEBCAK issues... so I'd like to set up a secure way of me logging onto his PC from home (To save me the journey and the over-strong tea!)
How am I best doing this, and how easy to set up?
With the old PC, every few weeks I would get a phone call: "This icon has disappeared..... The Virus scanner says it can't update..... I can't get the computer to make the tea....." You know the kind of thing.
Whenever I went round, the problems were usually PEBCAK issues... so I'd like to set up a secure way of me logging onto his PC from home (To save me the journey and the over-strong tea!)
How am I best doing this, and how easy to set up?
ThePassenger said:
meeja said:
How am I best doing this, and how easy to set up?
"Dad, phone Dell."
"Dad, phone Dell."
"Dad, phone Dell."
Then and only when the waranty/tech support expires should you get involved.
Trust me. It's simpler this way.
Agreed, but this is my dad we're talking about here!
I'd still like the remote option.... sometimes he wants to do things that wouldn't be covered by a Dell warranty (setting up rules in Outlook Express for example)... You know, the really stupid things that anyone who can read a helpfile could do for themselves. Anyone except my father that is.....
Thing is, when he gets a bee in his bonnet about something (ie wanting mail rules to use the same example) then it becomes a really urgent priority for him!
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