[TriLUG] Remote Desktop

[William Brauner via TriLUG]

I have always used Splashtop.

It's not free, but it's only $2/month. I've never had any issues other than
if the computer reboots, but you can setup Wake on LAN for that issue as
well.

On Tue, Apr 25, 2017 at 1:54 PM, C TC via TriLUG <trilug at trilug.org> wrote:

> I used Team Viewer for this (practically) exact setup. We had an old Win
> Exchange server in
> San Jose and used Team Viewer from east coast for 2 years. Only con I had
> was if there
> was a reboot/power down, the San Jose admin had to send new PW/code. Other
> than
> that, it worked well enough.
>
> On Tue, Apr 25, 2017 at 1:47 PM, Brian Grawburg via TriLUG <
> trilug at trilug.org> wrote:
>
> >
> > Our accounting package runs on a Windows XP Home system. (No, cannot
> > change either)
> >
> > I would like to be able to work from home and connect with my laptop.
> >
> > Our router is running dd-wrt.
> >
> >
> > I've sent up SSH and VNC connection to another Linux PC where I work to
> > simply get a few files and run a quick report.
> >
> >
> > The whole issue of opening ports, etc. is a bit daunting to me...don't
> > want to open a door to a hack (which I already did once, but thankfully
> it
> > was a good guy who just warned me).
> >
> >
> > I tried to set-up LogMeIn, but because I running a 64-bit system it
> > wouldn't install properly. Gave up trying.
> >
> > Wonder about Team Viewer.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Suggestions?
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Brian Grawburg
> >
> > Wilson
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Sent from a PC running Debian 8, 64-bit Linux and LibreOffice. (No one
> > needs to use MS Office!)
> >
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