Need to network home and work

so that I might slave that much harder

[juniperwasting]

I have just a wonderful idea, I need to work more. Work from home would be much easier if I could network my station at home to my work. What is the easiest way to do this. Using win2k at home , xp pro at work.

j

[momsbudget]

I use GoToMyPc.com to log into the law firm network. It brings up your actual desktop at work so you can work with every database and program you have. Used to use PCAnywhere at my last firm, it was extremely slow and painful and the programs depended on which PC you got logged onto in the training room, it wasn't connected to my PC. We also have laptops we can take, but I can't deal with 3 laptops at home, too much trouble.

[juniperwasting]

Thanks for the tip

[Receptional Andy]

VNC (or RealVNC) is another you might look at - it's freeware. Pretty slow, but might be useful.

[juniperwasting]

Freeware is always worth a shot.

[Receptional Andy]

VNC is excellent software (made by AT&T) but I wouldn't use it in any environment where security is important - it sends passwords etc. all in plain text as I recall.

[juniperwasting]

I can get around that i believe, i really just need access to a couple of programs and files.

[ncsuk]

I use both, VNC is best used for local networks and gotomypc is best for remote connections.

VNC is also useful because it is installed on linux systems almost as standard so if you have any linux machines you probably already have it but you just dont realise it.

[volatilegx]

Yeah VNC would be killer if you could print remote files locally and transfer files. I've used both GoToMyPC and VNC and they seem to be the same speed.

[juniperwasting]

gotomypc looks like it will be the best for my needs right now. Thanks for the advice gang!

j

[dingman]

VNC is excellent software (made by AT&T) but I wouldn't use it in any environment where security is important - it sends passwords etc. all in plain text as I recall.

That's why you tunnel it over an SSH2 connection :) There are instructions about how to do it on the AT&T web site for VNC. Just make sure that it doesn't decide that since it's on a "local" connection it should use the "raw" encoding type - it's dog slow.

[photon]

Unless I'm misunderstanding your setup or question, you should be able to use Remote Desktop. The XP Pro box can act as the server; you can download the client for Win2k from you-know-who.