Control your desktop from any browser (ie from work).

daveg

Had to share this piece of software with you. It will allow you to control your PC, transfer files etc from any browser. A bit like PCanywhere or gotomypc for those that know it.. except.. it's... completely.... FREE.

I'm currently setting up newsreader downloads, installing software, arranging files on my PC and all from work!!!!

Check it out at www.LogMeIn.com (choose the free option).

daveg

Does anyone know if our systems admin would have any issue with me using this software? I assume it's not heavy on bandwidth? Just double checking.

Would also be a handy app if you had heavy restrictions on surfing at work. You could surf the web from your PC at home connecting from work, if you know what I mean.

rOBeRt frETt

Remoting ouside of your network is cool, and it's nice to be able to get your hands on all your files and do some maintenance while your at it- However a lot of ppl won't be able to use this software because it uses certain communication protocols that should be blocked on the out going firewall- hey-they should be blocked on the switches too- your administrator won't be concerned about bandwidth issues but any IT security aduit will find him fired!!- Also I assume you had to install the server end on your home machine- do you have a firewall at home? this is a risky move and you should have some kind of security certificate on both machines and your password should be a pass phrase with lots of numbers and other crazy symbols, I would reccomend opening an SSL session to your home pc use putty (free program too) this will give you a command session onto the remote machine and once this is established you can run VNC and get a remote view of your PC and do FTP etc. If you just want to transfer files between home and anywhere else use a secure ftp program Winscp is great and can be used on MS/Unix/Linux machines.
Its nice an easy, just enter the IP address on the machine you wanna connect to, no need to install anything on the other end just have a remote access account setup.

http://winscp.net/eng/index.php

It's cool that you can do it but watch out for the hackers, you should at least limit what the remote account can do (Ie only allow a a few permissions on 1 folder and don't call the username administrator or guest this could be hacked in seconds)

ahh the true spirit of GNU - Give network back to users!!;)

rOBeRt frETt

Final thought dave- make sure this connection doesn't work the other way round- depending who ye work for this could land you in trouble :eek:

daveg

rOBeRt frETt wrote:

Final thought dave- make sure this connection doesn't work the other way round- depending who ye work for this could land you in trouble :eek:

Hi Robert,

To log into my PC at home you need to input a 13 digit password which no one would ever guess. I have a router at home (which offers some firewall I understand) along with Outpost firewall.

You mentioned the IT admin should have blocked the port that I would use to access my home pc with this application. But it all works through your web browser and I presume uses port 80.

The shared PC is at home only. Have not shared my work PC.

I presume when I using this my bandwidth taken from work would only be the same as if I were surfing the web?

majiktripp

I like this a lot! Its nice and simple and can send email invites for people to watch your desktop or take control of your pc.Very impressive piece of kit and easier for the lay person than say VNC or the likes!

rOBeRt frETt

You don't really have a bandwidth issue and the administrator should see any kind of lag on the network.

13 digit password is good, how many attempts do you get at the password?
hackers will use a crack dictionary, a list of Alpha numeric characters- write a script and go thru billions of possible usernames and passwords, they will start with administrator, root, guest, test.

you say this works in a browser, when you are connected are you using http
or https

can you transfer your company files onto your home PC?
-take a look at IT acceptable uage policy if you can

second thought I'll download it and have a look

LunaC

Signing up now....

Very handy indeed! Easy to use and I can see this coming in very useful in times to come.

Cheers for the link daveg.

mickoneill30

Does it work through a proxy?

Cake Fiend

daveg wrote:

To log into my PC at home you need to input a 13 digit password which no one would ever guess.

They don't need to guess it if they can sniff it. Make sure you're encrypting that traffic somehow (e.g. SSL).

TimTim

Personally I'm a fan of hamachi and I use remote desktop to get at my home machine (I find remote desktop faster then vnc, go figure)

MunsterCycling

LogMeIn uses SSL (Port 443) so the whole session is encripted. Only downside is that it is Windoze only now Linux or Mac host software so that is very restricting compared to VNC and the like.


Mc

SwampThing

So, what's involved in configuring a Zyxel 600 series DSL modem to llow access to a home PC?

Does some port forwarding or NAT need to be configured?