[AccessD] [SPAM SUSPECT] SOT:Home Link to Work Network

Max,

If you need to connect from your gateway pc to other computers on the
network, there's remote desktop that's built in to Windows XP.  If you don't
have Windows XP there are other open source programs like RealVNC
(www.realvnc.com) that should work for you.

Something you might look into is www.logmein.com.  We use it to connect to
work pc's from home.  They have a free version that doesn't allow printing
or file transfers to the remote pc.  Very similar to www.gotomypc.com.  If
you just need to connect to your work computer and take control of it like
your sitting in front of it, then it works great.  There's another free one
out there that many of the list users use but for the life of me I can't
rememember what it is.  

HTH,

Rusty

-----Original Message-----
From: Max Home [mailto:max at sherman.org.uk]
Sent: Friday, July 21, 2006 6:57 AM
To: 'Access Developers discussion and problem solving'
Subject: Re: [AccessD] [SPAM SUSPECT] SOT:Home Link to Work Network


Hi Bobby, Yes they all have Real VNC running but their IP addresses are in
the range 192... and I cannot connect directly to them.  When I connect from
my work pc to my home pc and then go home and look at the logs, it shows an
IP address which if I dial back into (so to speak) resolves to the Gateway
pc on the lan - not to my actual pc at work.


Regards
Max
-----Original Message-----
From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
[mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Bobby Heid
Sent: 21 July 2006 12:09
To: 'Access Developers discussion and problem solving'
Subject: Re: [AccessD] [SPAM SUSPECT] SOT:Home Link to Work Network

Well, there is always remote desktop and remote assistance (from your home
machine or office machine).  Or you could have a RealVNC server running on
their PCs so that you can connect directly to them.

Bobby

-----Original Message-----
From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
[mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Max Home
Sent: Friday, July 21, 2006 3:07 AM
To: 'Access Developers discussion and problem solving'
Subject: [SPAM SUSPECT] [AccessD] SOT:Home Link to Work Network
Importance: Low


Hi All, slightly off topic but related to Access.
Given the knowledge you lot obviously have, I wonder if somebody could help
me a problem I have had for some time.
I have an Access MDB (FE and BE) running on a peer to peer network at work.
The peer lan IP addresses are all in the range 192.x.x.x
Sometimes when I am working from home, I get a call to say that user xyz has
got problem with their database.
  
>From home I can connect to the gateway pc using RealVNC on my home pc and
work pc.  The gateway has two lan cards.  One connected to the Internet and
one used for the lan.

However, what this does is allow me to take control of the gateway pc as if
I was sitting in front of it.  I can, via windows explorer wander over the
lan to the other pc on the network but only within the windows explorer
limitations.  What I cannot do is run an application from their pc.  I can
run an app from the gateway pc but that doesn't help me with the user that
is having a problem with their Access MDB.
Is there any way I can get control of the user's pc as if I was sitting in
front of it?

If you can help, it would be appreciated.

Regards
Max


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