Remote Desktop

SsalissSsaliss
edited December 2012 in The Real World
I've been using Windows Mesh to connect remotely from the computer at my parents house to my computer at home while I'm there. Got a mail today about Microsoft shutting Mesh down though, so that'll stop being possible before too long... Does anyone have any other suggestions for programs that can enable me to connect remotely?
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  • XenthosXenthos Shadow Lord
    LogMeIn works (usually) and has the benefit of being free.
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  • SsalissSsaliss
    Looks good. Installed it, and was told I had a 30-day trial to Pro though, and it'd revert to Free afterwards. What are the differences between Pro and Free?
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  • SsalissSsaliss
    Ooh, just found the table of differences between the two. Rather more hidden away than it should be, but... yeah. Too bad Pro disabled the one function that I had planned on using other than Remote Desktop (i.e. file sharing). Sure, can be solved in other ways, but... it seemed like a really nice function :(
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  • XenthosXenthos Shadow Lord
    Yeah, there are a few nice little perks for the Pro version, but it is possible to live without them (or find ways around them, as you say).  Just being able to connect without installing and setting up a VPN is pretty nice.

    Though I'm probably heading towards the VPN route myself, at some point, as far as dialing in to the office goes (the company currently has a LogMeIn Pro account that a few users can log into concurrently, which was established before we switched to domain control- we've got a VPN set up to connect to now, so might as well start trying to move people towards that.  Starting with me).
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  • EveriineEveriine Wise Old Swordsbird / Brontaur Indianapolis, IN, USA
    Check this page out and see if anything works for you: http://www.techsupportalert.com/best-free-remote-access-software.htm
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  • SsalissSsaliss
    Everiine said:
    Check this page out and see if anything works for you: http://www.techsupportalert.com/best-free-remote-access-software.htm
    Looked through it, and it seems LogMeIn is the first pick for those as well... Looks promising all around. TeamViewer looks nice too, so if for some reason LogMeIn won't cooperate, I'll have a go at that one next.
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  • VadiVadi
    I prefer TeamViewer (for helping others), though Chromes Remote Desktop is also looking good (less functionality though, might not work for some usecases).

    Otherwise, TigerVNC is amazing. You might also want to check out Splashtop.
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  • DraylorDraylor
    Ditto. I use TigerVNC. It's brilliant.
  • SsalissSsaliss
    Hmm. I'll give TigerVNC a try as well. The big problem I see there is that I don't always have the IP-address readily available when I'm at my parents, but I could get that one through LogMeIn... so it'll have to do a better job than that one :D
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  • DraylorDraylor
    Dynamic DNS is your friend here.

    www.no-ip.org
    www.dyndns.org
    www.dnsdynamic.org
  • SsalissSsaliss
    I was actually looking at DynDNS earlier, but I think they removed the free version of their service. no-ip.org seems to work though, so we'll see how well it works in practice. More and more keeps being added to the background tasks though, sigh.
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