Remote Access to my Home Computer

[MacViolinist]

I should know how to do this, but I don't.

I want to remote into my home computer (a mac, duh) from my work computer (a windows pc)

What do I need to do set thix up?

 

[mrfrosty]

www.logmein.com

Or if you can get out unproxied just use vnc

 

[JNB]

www.logmein.com

Or if you can get out unproxied just use vnc

That won't work. Logmein target machine has to be a Windows box - the OP's trying to access his Mac.

Remote access Windows to Mac is a biyatch. I'm not sure if there is a solution.

 

[mrfrosty]

That won't work. Logmein target machine has to be a Windows box - the OP's trying to access his Mac.

Remote access Windows to Mac is a biyatch. I'm not sure if there is a solution.

I have said it once and i'll say it again. www.logmein.com. It does work on Mac's. I use it from work, through proxies back to 3 mac's in my house. It's not exactly plastered all over their site that it supports OSX but get into the download bit and your home.

https://secure.logmein.com/products/mac/faq.asp
https://secure.logmein.com/forum/tm.aspx?m=3190

 

[JNB]

I have said it once and i'll say it again. www.logmein.com. It does work on Mac's. I use it from work, through proxies back to 3 mac's in my house. It's not exactly plastered all over their site that it supports OSX but get into the download bit and your home.

https://secure.logmein.com/products/mac/faq.asp
https://secure.logmein.com/forum/tm.aspx?m=3190

A-ha! Man, are they ashamed of the Mac support or what? I could NOT find that page by simply browsing around. Without your linky, it'd stay hidden forever.

It does appear as it goes thru their servers, a la GoToMyPC. Is that correct?

 

[psychofreak]

A-ha! Man, are they ashamed of the Mac support or what? I could NOT find that page by simply browsing around. Without your linky, it'd stay hidden forever.

It does appear as it goes thru their servers, a la GoToMyPC. Is that correct?

If you go to the website on a Mac, it is the automatic download option

 

[pastrychef]

Why not use VNC? It's free...

 

[dukebound85]

Why not use VNC? It's free...

well so is logmein

 

[mrfrosty]

Why not use VNC? It's free...

VNC doesn't go out through most corporate proxies. If not using a proxy for net access it needs something like t5800, t5900, t5801 to be opened through the firewall which doesn't really happen by accident !

SSH Tunneling via t443 has problems using the authentication used by alot of corporate proxies too so that's ruled out.

+logmein rocks ! ...... The next version will hopefully less buggy, i doubt it will be faster but if you knock it into greyscale the speed is pretty good.

 

[mrfrosty]

A-ha! Man, are they ashamed of the Mac support or what? I could NOT find that page by simply browsing around. Without your linky, it'd stay hidden forever.

It does appear as it goes thru their servers, a la GoToMyPC. Is that correct?

Yeah looks that way to me too. I don't like that........but.......i'll live with it

 

[contoursvt]

VNC VNC VNC VNC VNC VNC VNC VNC VNC VNC VNC VNC VNC VNC VNC VNC VNC VNC VNC VNC VNC VNC VNC VNC VNC VNC VNC VNC VNC VNC VNC VNC VNC VNC VNC VNC VNC VNC VNC VNC VNC VNC VNC VNC VNC VNC VNC VNC VNC VNC VNC VNC VNC VNC VNC VNC VNC VNC VNC VNC VNC VNC VNC VNC VNC VNC VNC VNC VNC VNC VNC VNC VNC VNC VNC VNC VNC VNC VNC VNC VNC VNC VNC VNC VNC VNC VNC VNC VNC VNC VNC VNC VNC VNC VNC VNC VNC VNC VNC VNC VNC VNC VNC VNC VNC VNC VNC VNC VNC VNC VNC VNC VNC VNC VNC VNC VNC VNC VNC VNC VNC VNC VNC VNC VNC VNC VNC VNC VNC VNC VNC VNC VNC VNC VNC VNC

Oh ya... you can use VNC, it works perfectly. Mac to PC, PC to Mac... etc. I have not had any situation where VNC would not go out or that outgoing was blocked. Usually corporate firewalls block incoming ports but leave outgoing free... at least I have not encountered any that have blocked so far.

 

[DjAndy]

How is VNC free? As I see only Enterprise version works on OS X?

http://www.realvnc.com/products/download.html