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[Kevin Authenthic]

Just have a quick question is there any way that let say i am in school away from home and want to get on my laptop that is at home from school how can i do it?

do i have to set up a vpn

and if i do set up the vpn does my laptop have to be on at all times?

or can you acess files through a computer that is shut down

 

[Wolfshadw]

Your computer, at home, has to be on all the time.
You have to know the computer's IP address as seen from outside your home network and it should be static or have a DNS service installed.
You have to open a portal through your home firewall to allow outside access to your system.
You have to allow your system to be run remotely.

It was great because I used to be able to remote into my home PC with a TV Tuner card and a Windows program ([strike]forget the name[/strike] Windows Media Encoder) that allowed me to broadcast installed. I'd then initiate the broadcast, and then tell Windows Media Player (at my work computer), to start playing the broadcast found at my home system's external IP address.

Nice to keep an eye on those daytime baseball games while at work.

-Wolf sends

 

[Kevin Authenthic]

Your computer, at home, has to be on all the time.
You have to know the computer's IP address as seen from outside your home network and it should be static or have a DNS service installed.
You have to open a portal through your home firewall to allow outside access to your system.
You have to allow your system to be run remotely.

It was great because I used to be able to remote into my home PC with a TV Tuner card and a Windows program ([strike]forget the name[/strike] Windows Media Encoder) that allowed me to broadcast installed. I'd then initiate the broadcast, and then tell Windows Media Player (at my work computer), to start playing the broadcast found at my home system's external IP address.

Nice to keep an eye on those daytime baseball games while at work.

-Wolf sends

haha that sounds like a great experience

wells you seem to know a lot

but which program did you use or did you use the remote control
and how about when you computer went to sleep mode how did you wake it up

also you must have ulimate because in window 7 home prem you can only do remote control not let people get in

and also the external ip adress doesnt it change?? all the time

but how do you let it in to your firewall like where did you find the letters or ip adress

 

[AGx-07_162]

What are you trying to do ultimately? I find that TeamViewer is a great tool for user's that want as little manual configuration as possible as it also offers a VPN service. It's fine for basic browsing but I wouldn't try using it for Photo/Video Editing, Gaming, or anything else that requires low latency or great and quick mouse accuracy. That said, I've found no tools that are good for that because of horrible upload speeds typical ISPs offer.

 

[Wolfshadw]

First off, this was during Windows XP heyday. The program I used to connect to my home system was Windows Remote Desktop Connection (mstsc.exe). I entered my home network's address (given by my DNS service at the time) as well as the opened firewall port and my network password and I was able to connect. Basically, I'd start Remote Desktop, enter something like myhomenetwork.dyndns.org:12345, enter that systems, userid and password, and I was logged in.

Because I always wanted to be able to access my home system, I never allowed it to sleep/hibernate.

Yes, your external IP address changes whenever you or your ISP decides to refreh the connections, but that is what the DNS service is for. They continually tap your network to verify the IP Address hasn't changed. If it has, then they update their DNS entry to the new IP address.

At the the basic level, all the firewall knows to do is whether or not to allow traffic to pass through any particular port number. For instance, port 80 is open on your firewall. Otherwise, you would not be able to surf the web as port 80 allows for http traffic to flow through the firewall. Once the port is open, it's up to you to put in parameters which limit who and when traffic can flow through.

-Wolf sends

 

[cptmikey]

We have a peer-to-peer option that lets you connect two or more PC's. It's encrypted with openVPN end to end and the IP Address is static. It even works over a public WIFI. I personally use it to access my boat thru the marina's WIFI from anywhere I travel.

sysadm - portdefender.net

 

[DerekVGH]

If you're just looking to access your laptop from another location, you could use a free service such as LogMeIn. Once you go to the website and create an account, you log into the account from your laptop and associate it with your account. Then, from any other computer, you can go to the website, log into your account, and click on your computer to take control. You don't need any special software on the remote machine, and you shouldn't have to change any firewall settings either. It is not the most secure means of remote access, but it might be the most convenient, and it's free.