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Subject:RE: Run a PC remotely From:KMcLauchlan -at- chrysalis-its -dot- com To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Tue, 18 Dec 2001 09:58:23 -0500
Do these remote-use apps require that the called PC
(if it is a PC...) have a static IP address?
Also, I would expect corporate/government IT to detect
and refuse/kill attempts to reach the office workstation
from your house (or wherever), but what about the other
direction? If your office workstation initiates the
contact, are the responses from the home PC likely to
arouse the ire of the corporate firewall?
Is all this just the junior version of VPN?
This is sorta interesting to me, as we do have
corporate VPN, but that works for me connecting
securely from home to our network. There's no
provision for going the other way.
.> "John Posada" <jposada01 -at- yahoo -dot- com> wrote in message
.> > Hi, guys...been using something that has saved my butt a
> few times. I have no stake in the company, no money is received, and
> have not been contacted by them to promote them. Just wanted to pass it
along.
.
> > I've been using a service called GoToMyPC, found at
> > http://www.gotomypc.com/
.
> > What it allows you to do is access a PC (in this case, my home) from
> > anywhere (such as work) with only a browser. Access
> includes not only upload and download files, but to actually run the
> application on the remote PC.
.
> Hacky hacky. These programs are cool...but they are security
> hole waiting
> to be exploited. However, this gotomypc looks pretty good. At least it
> uses an SSL channel which is a bit safer. But it has to open up a port
> somewhere, and that means something to try to latch on to a
> brute force
> hack.
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