Dave There are several other concerns about using GoToMyPC vs PCAnywhere.
First, PCAnywhere is much more robust when it comes to security. It offers several levels of encryption that GoToMyPC does not, including a basic, PC Anywhere mode, Symmetric and Public/Private key mode (Starting with Version 11). This makes PCAnywhere fully HIPPA compliant where that kind of security is required. Secondly, PCAnywhere allows the administrator to setup specific INDIVIDUALS or GROUPS, using the Microsoft Domain Controller users and passwords. Third, PCAnywhere allows dual logins: The first just to connect to the PCAnywhere host. At the first level, no username or domain name is ever displayed. This forces the person connection to have complete knowledge of the machine and / or network they are connecting to. The second to login to the actual network, via the login screen on the actual hosting machine. IMHO, PCAnywhere is substantially more secure and far superior to GoToMyPC. Bruce Barnes ChicagoNetTech Inc -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dave Riddle Sent: Wednesday, July 27, 2005 11:28 To: [email protected] Subject: (SPF-None) [IMail Forum] OT: Remote Control Sorry for the off topic post but this is a good "networking" knowledgeable group. I have a client that currently uses pcAnywhere 11.5 to allow +5 of its employees to access the internal network with pcAnywhere to a specific group of older notebook computers, residing in their server room, that have been setup to specifically to hosts these remote sessions. They have a new employee who has been given access and he is pushing them to dump pcAnywhere in favor of GoToMyPC and they have against my advice put the software on a few of the machines. I understand the differences in the approach of the two applications (stand alone v. browser based and separate installation v. accessing via third party server). I have two major concerns with GoToMyPC and they are of course the monthly subscription cost of GoToMyPC compared to the one time ownership costs of pcAnywhere (this makes the cost of pcAnywhere actually cheaper) but the biggest concern is that with pcAnywhere we can configure the router to allow specific access to specific machines through the firewall since pcAnywhere runs on configurable specific ports. In the past this has been beneficial when an employee was to be terminated and we could either change the assigned ports on the hosts and reconfigure the router or change the password. GoToMyPC readily breaches the network firewall. This is well and fine for the single user with his "host" computer sitting on a cable modem at home that has a dynamic IP but when you have. I love the "doublespeak" that GoToMyPC has on their website about this. They say they work with most firewalls but that pcAnywhere compromises the firewall by bypassing (an outright lie) it when in reality GoToMyPC is really the application operating outside of network security. Am I all wet on my concerns or are there other concerns that I have not thought about. To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/ To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/
