On Dec 17, 2010, at 10:58 AM, Neil Laubenthal <[email protected]> wrote:
Another option would be to just get an account with logmein.com, install their client on a machine inside your network and on your laptop and then you have an SSL VPN connection to remote control your host at home . .not quite the same as regular VPN but it's free and easy to do. It also requires you to trust logmein.com since what you get in this instance is a 3 way VPN connection . . .but that's a risk most people would be willing to take I would think. It's the unsavory people sitting in the coffeeshop with Firesheep or the logger on the wifi point in Thailand or wherever you want to not trust. Check out https://secure.logmein.com/welcome/documentation/EN/pdf/common/LogMeIn_SecurityWhitepaper.pdf - Logmein really is a fantastic product and an excellent firewall busting solution - all you need is port 443. Free edition is basically remote control only, but their paid edition is as good or better than things like GoToMyPc. Also, they have one of the best (albeit expensive at $30) iPhone/iTouch/iPad clients around. Lastly, if you have a slow uplink at home, their compression and color reduction routines trump any VNC based solution. Can you tell I highly recommend the service? I have a secure VPN connection to my home, as well as a SSH rule enabled in my firewall for remote terminal / sftp sessions, but I always have LogMeIn running for when I'm on my iPad, or somewhere (cough*hotels*cough) where port access is limited. _______________________________________________ MacOSX-admin mailing list [email protected] http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-admin
