Controlling my PC from anywhere

[Jon12345]

My PC, with all its various tools, has a dsl connection to the internet. Ideally, I would like to control this PC from anywhere. e.g. I go on holiday, take my laptop and use pcanywhere via the internet.

However, quite often, my PC gets disconnected due to ISP problems. If I am not there, I cannot reconnect.

Therefore, is there a more robust solution? What about a hosting account with Windows on the server? Would this work? Could I still control screen output etc?

Does this make sense? I want to run certain software tools and perhaps I could upload these to a hosting account.

Thanks,

Jon

[Air]

You may want to try a cable router to have the connection maintained with the PC.

For remote control you may want to look at VNC [webmasterworld.com] like PCAnywhere but it's free and works on more systems than just windows.

[txbakers]

I use Sunbelt Remote Administrator - the only thing I can't do from anywhere is push the power button in the event of power failure.

[richlowe]

Careful with security - if you can get to it so can hackers.

Richard Lowe

[dingman]

I use VNC tunneled over SSH. I was astonished at how easy it was to set up the tunneling on the client machine. Unless you can get around my iptables rules, you're not getting in to my machine on the port that vncserver is listening to, and I wouldn't do without SSH, so it's not notably more risk than I'd have without VNC. Hopefully these other products are as readily connected to a tunneled local port?

[bill]

GoToMyPC has saved my butt on several occasions. It's web based so you can access your machines from anywhere. I like it a lot better than PCAnywhere.

[JustTrying]

Thanks for the reccomendation Bill, that looks like a really good solution.