how to access my computer at home form another location

Try Real VNC

-- Oren

"Well, it doesn't happen all the time, but when it happens, it happens constantly."

I use LogMeIn

CIAO!

Ed N.

dellboy snipped-for-privacy@hotmail.co.uk wrote:

Another vote for VNC. I use ultr@vnc, which also includes an HTML/Java viewer. Just point your web browser at the machine you want to control. Very slick for locked-down corporate PCs.

Eric

Oh, and it is free, too.

Thanks for the help i will download VNC

Right I have downloaded it but i want to access it from another compter via the web how would i do so ?????????

You will need to know the IP address of the target computer, have firewall enabled for VNC traffic, and the router, if any, set to pass traffic on the VNC port of the target computer.

Since VNC traffic is not encrypted, exposing a computer to the web is risky unless one takes some steps to safeguard the connection. Personally, I tunnel my VNC connections through SSH and have configured SSH to use only public key encryption. This way, only port 22 need be open to the web and no machine can connect unless an exchange of public keys has occurred beforehand.

ok thanks very much

Are you sure about that? As I said above, I use Ultr@VNC, and it has support for MSRC4, which while a pain to set up, seems to be secure enough. The Web interface also exchanges keys between computers (at least IE puts up a warning) when you first log on to the server.

I must admit that I know nothing about Ultr@VNC, but for me it was a trivial matter to tunnel the VNC connections through SSH, which I had already set up to enable secure remote access to my computers for other purposes.