[iBook] Remote access

[Janice F. Jorgensen]

The pc has a cable modem connection all the time.   It is hard wired.  I
also have a wireless router, but the pc is not wireless.  Other computers in
the house are.

The ibook has airport.

I would like to fix problems, get data, operate some software which is not
on the ibook, and I suppose from time to time get files.


Janice

Andy McMullinandy.mcmullin at mac.com

> On Wednesday, March 16, 2005, at 11:36AM, Janice F. Jorgensen
> <janicejorgensen at charter.net> wrote:
> 
>> I would like to be able to get into a PC with windows 2000  at my home when
>> I am traveling from my ibook with os x 10.2.8.
>> 
>> thanks
>> Janice
> 
> Janice,
> 
> What you wish to do is achievable but there is a number of issue that need to
> be dealt with. 
> 
> First, how does the machine at home connect to the internet (if at all)? The
> question relates to creating the connection between your portable and your
> home machine. If you have a broadband or other link to home that has a
> consistant IP address things aren't too difficult, if you have a link such
> that the home machine dials up, then you need some way to make it dial and
> some way to find out which address it has been allocated once it has
> connected. These latter two are not impossible but can be difficult.
> 
> As an alternative, your home machine might have a modem and your portable dial
> into it. However, this method is not really using the internet and many
> internet tools won't work over such a link (without some work on the PC).
> 
> Once you have the physical link, there is a number of software systems that
> can let one machine control another. As was mentioned in one of the previous
> mailings, VNC is one such package. VNC will require some effort to set up, but
> it works fairly well particularly over slow connections.
> 
> It is unfortunate that your PC is running Windows 2000 not XP Professional or
> 2000 server because Microsoft have a very nice package called "Remote Desktop
> Client" (see 
> http://www.microsoft.com/mac/otherproducts/otherproducts.aspx?pid=remotedeskto
> pclient) which is what I use to control a number of machines. It's free and I
> find it works very well.
> 
> Both of these packages are intended to let you control the PC as though you
> were sitting at its keyboard and viewing its screen. However, if all you want
> to do is copy files from or to the PC much simpler methods exist.
> 
> I hope this helps. If you'd like to "discuss" it further off-line, drop me a
> personal e-mail.
> 
> Regards
> Andy, G8TQH
> http://www.rickham.net/
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Janice F. Jorgensen
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