SSD Posted April 17, 2014 Share Posted April 17, 2014 I will be traveling and would like to be able to remote control my home PC from my travel location. What are the best options. I want something reasonably fast, secure and (hopefully) free. I do own VNC. I can easily access my array from my home PC and would prefer that to directly connecting to my server. Quote Link to comment
trurl Posted April 17, 2014 Share Posted April 17, 2014 I liked Logmein until they took away the free option. Have been using Teamviewer since. Quote Link to comment
SSD Posted April 17, 2014 Author Share Posted April 17, 2014 I liked Logmein until they took away the free option. Have been using Teamviewer since. Looks good! Does it include ads? Quote Link to comment
prtsmgr Posted April 17, 2014 Share Posted April 17, 2014 The only thing I dislike about Team Viewer is that no matter what I try, I cannot get it to start or wake my office pc remotely like I could with LogMein Free. Quote Link to comment
trurl Posted April 17, 2014 Share Posted April 17, 2014 I liked Logmein until they took away the free option. Have been using Teamviewer since. Looks good! Does it include ads? Just a nag popup when you close it. Quote Link to comment
StevenD Posted April 17, 2014 Share Posted April 17, 2014 Another vote for TeamViewer. Quote Link to comment
CrashnBrn Posted April 17, 2014 Share Posted April 17, 2014 I use TeamViewer as well! Quote Link to comment
garycase Posted April 17, 2014 Share Posted April 17, 2014 One more vote for TeamViewer ... although I must admit I liked LogMeIn better. We're going to be gone for nearly 9 weeks this summer, and I suspect I'll just give the LogMeIn folks $100 so I can set up both of our computers for access [$99 for 2 computers isn't all that bad -- although clearly it's not nearly as nice as FREE was ] Quote Link to comment
StevenD Posted April 17, 2014 Share Posted April 17, 2014 One more vote for TeamViewer ... although I must admit I liked LogMeIn better. We're going to be gone for nearly 9 weeks this summer, and I suspect I'll just give the LogMeIn folks $100 so I can set up both of our computers for access [$99 for 2 computers isn't all that bad -- although clearly it's not nearly as nice as FREE was ] Yes, LogMeIn was better. However, I have serious problems with how they handled the transition. I'd never give them money again because of that. Quote Link to comment
SSD Posted April 17, 2014 Author Share Posted April 17, 2014 Thanks all!! I've learned that unRaid users are about the most knowledgable on most any technology subject! I'll give Teamviewer a try. Since I've never use Logmein, I won't have any regrets or feelings of paradise lost . My travel location is fixed and I have a second workstation there, and high-speed broadband access. I'd like to be able to connect bidirectionally (when home connect to travel, when traveling connect to home). Assuming I can do that. I was expecting someone to say they VPNed into their network and used VNC or something similar. Is that anything people have tried? Quote Link to comment
prostuff1 Posted April 17, 2014 Share Posted April 17, 2014 I was expecting someone to say they VPNed into their network and used VNC or something similar. Is that anything people have tried? When I am at my parents house I VPN to my router and then do the remote desktop thing. It works just like I am at home sitting on my network. I can connect to my SMB shares like I am sitting at home. Just have to be aware that I am going over a slower internet connection so streaming Blu Ray might not be feasible. Quote Link to comment
SSD Posted April 17, 2014 Author Share Posted April 17, 2014 My router and modem are a single unit from my service provider. It does not include VPN features. Is there an alternate means to establish VPN? Quote Link to comment
prostuff1 Posted April 17, 2014 Share Posted April 17, 2014 My router and modem are a single unit from my service provider. It does not include VPN features. Is there an alternate means to establish VPN? I turned off all but the essential on the router/modem provided by my cable company. Frankly I should just go buy my own cable modem and be done with it so I do not have to pay the rental fee from my cable provider. If you do that then you can get a DDWRT capable router, put DDWRT on it and set it up however you like. Quote Link to comment
Chris Pollard Posted April 17, 2014 Share Posted April 17, 2014 My ISP supplied home router can actually be put into bridge mode allowing me to use my own router instead. Quote Link to comment
garycase Posted April 17, 2014 Share Posted April 17, 2014 Virtually any ISP supplied router can be supplanted by your own router. As long as your own router is the only thing you connect to the ISP's, then you won't have any issues with different subnets, so it'll work exactly as if your router was the only one in the system. Just connect the WAN port on your router to a LAN port on the ISP's router and it'll effectively just use the ISP's router's cable modem function. Quote Link to comment
jbartlett Posted April 17, 2014 Share Posted April 17, 2014 I use Splashtop remotely control my home PC/VM's from my iPad and android phone, they also released a desktop app to do the same. They boast being able to play WoW on an iPad. Quote Link to comment
aptalca Posted April 18, 2014 Share Posted April 18, 2014 I do vpn + rdp for my linux vm Ans I used to do teamviewer for my winxp vm If you're using Google Chrome, there is a Chrome rdp app that works really well on windows Quote Link to comment
SSD Posted April 18, 2014 Author Share Posted April 18, 2014 Ok, I installed Teamviewer. It asked if I wanted to install Teamviewer VPN and I declined. Was that a mistake? Have not yet tried to connect. Assuming I need to leave the computer turned on, locked and not go to sleep for me to be able to access remotely. Correct? And one other question - would someone be able to observe my activity if they happened to be looking at the display while I was controlling it remotely. Quote Link to comment
StevenD Posted April 18, 2014 Share Posted April 18, 2014 Ok, I installed Teamviewer. It asked if I wanted to install Teamviewer VPN and I declined. Was that a mistake? Have not yet tried to connect. Assuming I need to leave the computer turned on, locked and not go to sleep for me to be able to access remotely. Correct? And one other question - would someone be able to observe my activity if they happened to be looking at the display while I was controlling it remotely. I wasnt aware of the VPN portion. I may look into that. Im getting ready to do some international traveling and that would be an easy way to stream US services. Im not aware of a way in TemViewer to keep the remote desktop locked while remoting. The app is intended for sharing, so that kind of the point. Quote Link to comment
SSD Posted April 18, 2014 Author Share Posted April 18, 2014 Ok, I installed Teamviewer. It asked if I wanted to install Teamviewer VPN and I declined. Was that a mistake? Have not yet tried to connect. Assuming I need to leave the computer turned on, locked and not go to sleep for me to be able to access remotely. Correct? And one other question - would someone be able to observe my activity if they happened to be looking at the display while I was controlling it remotely. I wasnt aware of the VPN portion. I may look into that. Im getting ready to do some international traveling and that would be an easy way to stream US services. Im not aware of a way in TemViewer to keep the remote desktop locked while remoting. The app is intended for sharing, so that kind of the point. I don't expect to leave my computer powered on and unlocked 24x7 to allow me to remote in. Quote Link to comment
StevenD Posted April 18, 2014 Share Posted April 18, 2014 You dont need to leave it unlocked. It will need to be powered on, unless you have another way to wake-on-lan. Quote Link to comment
jowi Posted April 18, 2014 Share Posted April 18, 2014 Strange, my logmein is still free? I'm using it for several years now, also to remote control my mac mini. Quote Link to comment
StevenD Posted April 18, 2014 Share Posted April 18, 2014 Strange, my logmein is still free? I'm using it for several years now, also to remote control my mac mini. Did you pay for one of the ipad or android apps? They extended it a few months for users who did. Quote Link to comment
01111000 Posted April 20, 2014 Share Posted April 20, 2014 I was expecting someone to say they VPNed into their network and used VNC or something similar. Is that anything people have tried? When I am at my parents house I VPN to my router and then do the remote desktop thing. It works just like I am at home sitting on my network. I can connect to my SMB shares like I am sitting at home. Just have to be aware that I am going over a slower internet connection so streaming Blu Ray might not be feasible. Can you provide a bit more info on this? This is something I've been wanting to setup; I already have a DDWRT Asus RT-N16. Quote Link to comment
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