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    Senior Member very_unhappy's Avatar
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    help w/ remote connection to home

    I’d like to be able to leave my system @ home not logged in or maybe even logged in on a restricted account (for my daughter to play with) but I would like to be able to access it from work w/ full admin rights. What would be a best open source solution for this? I’d like to be able to do things like, manage my running torrents, and run archiving programs. Is there a more subtle way to do this then VNC of some kind? I was thinking netcat shh or cryptcat but how much control will I actually have w/ those?

    Both systems win2k

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    You can tunnel VNC over stunnel or ssh.

    http://www.stunnel.org/examples/vnc.html

    http://www.shebeen.com/vnc_ssh/

    If you have 2k server (not pro), you can setup terminal services and use remote desktop.

    With 2k pro, only one user will be able to use the machine at a time. 2k server, you can have multiple users on it at once.

    If you have a NAT router, you will have to use port forwarding to forward an external port to the internal machine.

    BTW: Some torrent clients (like azureus) have plugins that allow you to manage it via the web. So, you don't need terminal or desktop access. It'll load up just like a web page does in your browser.
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    In addition to those suggestions you could ......

    1. Use hamachi www.hamachi.cc

    -- Then you would use vnc

    2. Use Log Me In Free www.loginme.com

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    Senior Member very_unhappy's Avatar
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    thanx for your reply ... Net2... do you know if linux and win version of hamachi are interoperable
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    yes they are. Himachi gives you a 'private' vpn address. It's based off of TCP/IP, so assuming that whatever remote program you are using works on the other OS, then you shouldn't have any problems.
    I have my CCNA and i'm currently working towards my CCNP and CSSP.

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