Remoting Software
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A friend of mine has cancer and is receiving treatment. She works for an NPO (not for profit organization) that have provided her with a laptop can can take home. However, some portions of her job require functions to be completed only from her computer that is on site at her work desk. So, what would you recommend for remoting software to allow her to access her on-site computer from home? Any help is appreciated.
Try team viewer....best remote desktop software around, bypasses firewall and NAT's. requires good connection though. :-) Anand.
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A friend of mine has cancer and is receiving treatment. She works for an NPO (not for profit organization) that have provided her with a laptop can can take home. However, some portions of her job require functions to be completed only from her computer that is on site at her work desk. So, what would you recommend for remoting software to allow her to access her on-site computer from home? Any help is appreciated.
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Given that I dissed TeamViewer a few days ago and many appeared to agree with my complaints: Remote Desktop GoToMyPC (possibly not free, not sure) TightVNC - I've been very pleased with it. Sorry to hear about your friend having cancer - I hope the treatment is successful! Marc
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I like Teamviewer or GoToMyPC for the fact that they do all the network navigation for you. Other than that, ya, they're not my favorite. How is the mouse support for TightVNC? We're using Ultra and Real here and I can only use the left, right, and scroll buttons. My 4th and 5th buttons don't work. I'm surprised that no one is listing Dameware. It's what I use here at work along with Remote Desktop and a couple of the VNC variants. The nice thing is that you pay for the client and you can install the service on as many machines as you wish to access. They've tried to push us to use Symantec PcAnywhere. It's probably near the bottom if not the bottom of my list. My preference list would be: Dameware - Automated functions and a little "snappier" than Remote Desktop Remote Desktop VNC Variant - lack of 4th and 5th button support, little wonky with the color compression sometimes If you don't have VPN access and you're not experienced with networking, I would recommend going with TeamViewer though. Also, I wish your friend the best Tim.
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A friend of mine has cancer and is receiving treatment. She works for an NPO (not for profit organization) that have provided her with a laptop can can take home. However, some portions of her job require functions to be completed only from her computer that is on site at her work desk. So, what would you recommend for remoting software to allow her to access her on-site computer from home? Any help is appreciated.
Teamviewer is free for NPO www.teamviewer.com
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A friend of mine has cancer and is receiving treatment. She works for an NPO (not for profit organization) that have provided her with a laptop can can take home. However, some portions of her job require functions to be completed only from her computer that is on site at her work desk. So, what would you recommend for remoting software to allow her to access her on-site computer from home? Any help is appreciated.
I use Remote Desktop extension for Google Chrome. It's easy and it's free. Just need chrome browser on both machines. Wish all the best for your friend. PS: Just don't use alt+f4 :)
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Teamviewer is free for NPO www.teamviewer.com
No. It is not. Unless the work is volunteer and unpaid. For NPO's with paid employees it's not free.
Teamviewer[^]:
As private use we understand any use of TeamViewer for purposes that are neither directly nor indirectly paid. It is not about whether the service itself is paid but whether the service is rendered within the context of the creation of an added value with some kind of financial compensation. Examples for an indirect payment: - a software company sells a software product for which it offers free support via TeamViewer - teamwork among colleagues within a company - use in associations and non-profit organizations with non-volunteer (i.e. paid) employees - access to a company computer for work-related activities
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I like Teamviewer or GoToMyPC for the fact that they do all the network navigation for you. Other than that, ya, they're not my favorite. How is the mouse support for TightVNC? We're using Ultra and Real here and I can only use the left, right, and scroll buttons. My 4th and 5th buttons don't work. I'm surprised that no one is listing Dameware. It's what I use here at work along with Remote Desktop and a couple of the VNC variants. The nice thing is that you pay for the client and you can install the service on as many machines as you wish to access. They've tried to push us to use Symantec PcAnywhere. It's probably near the bottom if not the bottom of my list. My preference list would be: Dameware - Automated functions and a little "snappier" than Remote Desktop Remote Desktop VNC Variant - lack of 4th and 5th button support, little wonky with the color compression sometimes If you don't have VPN access and you're not experienced with networking, I would recommend going with TeamViewer though. Also, I wish your friend the best Tim.
milo-xml wrote:
How is the mouse support for TightVNC?
Don't know, I only have a two button mouse with wheel. Never heard of Dameware - I'll check it out. PCAnywhere? Wow, that's ancient! ;) Marc
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milo-xml wrote:
How is the mouse support for TightVNC?
Don't know, I only have a two button mouse with wheel. Never heard of Dameware - I'll check it out. PCAnywhere? Wow, that's ancient! ;) Marc
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Marc Clifton wrote:
PCAnywhere? Wow, that's ancient! ;)
I know, right? I think someone high up in our IT department is getting kickbacks from Symantec. The nice thing about Dameware is that you can remote install the service to view the remote desktop, as long as you have administrative privileges. Then automatically stop or even uninstall the service when you're done.
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A friend of mine has cancer and is receiving treatment. She works for an NPO (not for profit organization) that have provided her with a laptop can can take home. However, some portions of her job require functions to be completed only from her computer that is on site at her work desk. So, what would you recommend for remoting software to allow her to access her on-site computer from home? Any help is appreciated.
I used the tunneling capability of putty ssh and remote desktop for years. Once you have the tunnel set up stored with that session in putty, all she'll need to do is log in with ssh and then use remote desktop to get to her machine. If you know how, you can even make a blanket tunnel to all the ports of an entire machine, which is useful for accessing things like file share servers. There's easier systems to use, but the IT department probably already has some form of remote access for themselves, and there's a good chance its ssh, which would mean all they need to do to get this going, is to allow her to log into that server remotely.
We can program with only 1's, but if all you've got are zeros, you've got nothing.
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A friend of mine has cancer and is receiving treatment. She works for an NPO (not for profit organization) that have provided her with a laptop can can take home. However, some portions of her job require functions to be completed only from her computer that is on site at her work desk. So, what would you recommend for remoting software to allow her to access her on-site computer from home? Any help is appreciated.
For a free option, look into Chrome Remote Desktop. It runs inside the Chrome Browser and works pretty well. You can find it in the Chrome Web Store. Install the "server"side on the machine at work, and the use the extension on the chrome client to log in... Works fairly well. Hope your friend benefits from her treatment and beats the disease... Regards, Rolando
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No. It is not. Unless the work is volunteer and unpaid. For NPO's with paid employees it's not free.
Teamviewer[^]:
As private use we understand any use of TeamViewer for purposes that are neither directly nor indirectly paid. It is not about whether the service itself is paid but whether the service is rendered within the context of the creation of an added value with some kind of financial compensation. Examples for an indirect payment: - a software company sells a software product for which it offers free support via TeamViewer - teamwork among colleagues within a company - use in associations and non-profit organizations with non-volunteer (i.e. paid) employees - access to a company computer for work-related activities
Thank you for the link and explanation. I assumed this was the case, but knowing is better.
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A friend of mine has cancer and is receiving treatment. She works for an NPO (not for profit organization) that have provided her with a laptop can can take home. However, some portions of her job require functions to be completed only from her computer that is on site at her work desk. So, what would you recommend for remoting software to allow her to access her on-site computer from home? Any help is appreciated.
I own a Professional license for TeamViewer, but I find myself using http://jumpdesktop.com/ and http://chrome.google.com/remotedesktop almost exclusively for the past couple of years.
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A friend of mine has cancer and is receiving treatment. She works for an NPO (not for profit organization) that have provided her with a laptop can can take home. However, some portions of her job require functions to be completed only from her computer that is on site at her work desk. So, what would you recommend for remoting software to allow her to access her on-site computer from home? Any help is appreciated.
I use remoting software everyday, my PC is in a datacenter as that has the speed to download stuff really quickly like compilers libraries and so forth. My home network is standard hsdpa (sloooow). I have a lot of experience when dealing with remote desktop software. For Microsoft Windows, the RDP protocol is good but you shouldn't be constrained to a single protocol (allow for redundancy). Logmein is in my experience uses a slow protocol. TeamViewer is excellent for documents, coding and what not. UDP protocol usually. Splashtop is good for videos (again UDP) Chrome Remote Desktop is also an option if a little awkward to setup but very reliable. VNC protocol can be slow. My mac (I assume you're Microsoft Windows) has a HDMI USB tricky thing, which activates the graphics card for OpenGL 4. This also improves performance for many apps [remotely]. I do recommend 2 protocols, one as back up. Even more so if you don't have access to the machine (which I'm sure you do). Best Regards Bobby Jo
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A friend of mine has cancer and is receiving treatment. She works for an NPO (not for profit organization) that have provided her with a laptop can can take home. However, some portions of her job require functions to be completed only from her computer that is on site at her work desk. So, what would you recommend for remoting software to allow her to access her on-site computer from home? Any help is appreciated.
I use RDP and Logmein. Both are free but Logmein is very easy to set up and works via a browser interface.