Connecting from Windows to a Mac Mini box

[pkiula]

Hi. Hope one of the gurus here can help.

I have a mac mini that I have connected to my LCD TV in the living room. This works fantastically. I just love this little box, it has all my content that I play on the TV.

But I don't want to handle the keyboard every single time I want to listen to music or watch a video.

So I want a way to connect from my HP laptop (Windows vista) to the mac mini remotely and operate the mac mini from my sofa where I have the laptop.

If both my machines were mac, this is easy as there is remote sharing. But if my laptop is Hp windows, then what should I do? Is there some vpn thing that will work? I tried searching etc but am not sure what I need to search for here.

Thanks for any pointers or advice!

 

[Dalton63841]

Just get a vnc client on your laptop, such as tightvnc or realvnc. Enter the Mac Mini's credentials and away you go.

 

[balamw]

VNC. http://lifehacker.com/366940/back-to-my-mac-from-a-pc

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[pkiula]

Wow, thanks so much! Will read that stuff. TightVNC sounds like the app I was looking for!