I tried out gotomypc.com this weekend and found it to be pretty cool. The
desktop interaction was pretty responsive, and I liked the file transfer
feature. For those that don't know how it works, you install a client on the
pc you want to control. This client talks to a gotomypc server. You connect
to the remote pc via a web browser which connects to the same gotomypc
server. This creates a connection you can work from.

I have always wanted to set something up like this for my customers that I
service. I have been able to access some workstations by port forwarding tcp
5900 to the private IP of the workstation that I need to access. If the
customer has Terminal Server I access it and use VNC from there to the local
workstations. This works fine if you can port forward or Nat one to one, but
I cannot connect to ISP customers using one to many Nat. The gotomypc client
software initiates the outbound connection, so this problem is overcome when
using there services. Since  I am unwilling to spend $14.95 a month per PC,
I was wondering if there is a project or solution out there that would be
similar ?

Raymond Norton
LCTN
admin at lctn.org


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