Remote Access

[rande]

Hi, I'm from a small company with know night shift.
Is there away to remote acces our network server/ macs from home incase theres a problem at work? There would be a pressman to turn everything on.
Timbuck Two use to, anything better or different?

thanks

[Joe]

I use Apple Remote Access for Mac to Mac access. VNC for PC to PC/Mac access. And Microsoft Remote Dekstop for Mac to PC access.

[Cory]

I use VNC...works out great..

most VNC servers also include a java client so you also remote access through the web if you don't have a client available.

[tbJAMMIN]

I worked from home for a whole year (health reasons) outputting film using Timbuktu Pro. I could access both Macs and PCs from either platform.

I still made them buy me a Mac so I would have both platforms to edit files on locally, but I did it for a while using only my PC.

[hagar_uk]

Originally Posted by rande

Hi, I'm from a small company with know night shift.
Is there away to remote acces our network server/ macs from home incase theres a problem at work? There would be a pressman to turn everything on.
Timbuck Two use to, anything better or different?

thanks

Can't really go wrong with VNC you might need open up ports on the router for access which may a security issue. I have always found for Windows server, terminal services better.

For getting round NAT / firewall issues, I tend to use Echoware VNC, which is slighly different as the Host PC is not passive like VNC but makes an outgoing connection to a server ( ihave running) to get round NAT and firewall problem.

[tbJAMMIN]

What I was trying to say was that, yes there is different, but not better for cross platform remote access that I have used....

[sydproblemsolver]

A great VNC ap is Hamachi, works on MacOSX, PC and Linus. Its a bit complex on mac but if your familiar with running aps in terminal.

Hamachi works really well getting around firewall etc that some IT deparments nazis block.