Connect to a home pc remotely

[Gary.Lowe]

Don't know if this is the right place but I want to know If I can connect to my home pc via the internet. If so How?

Thanks

[Ianpbaker]

Hi Gary

One of the nicest way's is to use PC anywhere from symantec and let's you control your computer as if you were at home. The downside is that your computer at home has got to be connected to the net when you want to connect to it. and secondly, if either computer is using a 56k connection it is a bit slow. But apart from that it is still probably the best way to connect.

Ian

[Gary.Lowe]

Cheers Ian

Would it be best to get it straight from the symantec site or is there anywhere else you could suggest

[Ianpbaker]

Slight problem. I've had a quick look around and a 5 user licence is comming in at around £500, didn't realise that is was that expensive as I've nether brought it myself before.

you can download the trial from here

https://enterprisesecurity.symantec.com/Content/TrialwareForm.cfm?PromoCode=Trialware&ProductID=2&PID=425261&SSL=Yes

Ian


[Edited by Ianpbaker on 08-29-2000 at 09:45 AM]

[Gary.Lowe]

Thanks Ian

managed to find a 1 user license for £119.00 on the site.
http://uk.symantecstore.com/Product/0,1057,2-2-SN106653,00.html


I'll try the trial before I decide though.

Thanks

[Gary.Lowe]

Cheers Kovan

I'll contact you later.

[Ianpbaker]

Kovan

Be careful of posting things like that on this site if it is anything other than strictly legal, as John and James take a dim view on it.

[compuGEEK]

I also used PCAnywhere, but have found a better product...and it's free!

It's called VNC, Virtual Network Computing. Here is the URL:

http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc/

[Gary.Lowe]

Cheers compuGEEK

I can't get a connection to that site from here. May be our firewall. I'm off home in an hour so I will try it from home.

Thanks again

[Xenonic_Rob]

I'm sure you could write a VB program, to at least control the mouse, run programs, delete files etc. Shouldn't be too hard....