Re: OT: Remote Access To Someoby Else's PC?

(PeteCresswell) wrote:
I started trying to pursue this in the Windows XP NG, but in
trying to sound like I knew something I think I confused the
issue.

Bottom line: ------------------------------------------------------------
- I built up a PC for a close family member that lives 100
miles away. An Asus MB, of course.... -)

- That person is a classic technophobe. i.e. not somebody
that you'd want to work a problem with over the phone.

- To address the inevitable and recurring problems this box
will raise, it occurs to me that I should figure out how
to logon to it and troubleshoot things from afar.

- I'm willing to put up a purchase price for some product or
another, but don't want to get wrapped up in some pay-by-the
month scheme as with RemotePC.

- Windows XP Pro, both boxes.

- Verizon Fios on this end, Verizon DSL ("Broadband") on
the other end.

- I'm figuring on driving to the other person's place sometime
this week, picking up the box, and bringing it home to work on - then, when whatever remote access tool seems tb
working locally, I'll drive it back down there, get somebody
technically-inclined on my home PC, and try to get is shaken
down in it's final config.
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Can anybody offer up some advice?


We have used PC Anywhere for years with no problems to do this. We have a Autodialer and the company that made it and supports it is 300 miles away. Using a password on the connection makes it possible to leave it on all the time without having to worry. Another product we have used is Real VNC, which I believe is a free product.
Both of these solutions require that software be installed on both PCs.
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