Jim Lawrence
accessd at shaw.ca
Sun Jun 24 14:47:49 CDT 2012
And as an addition we also have plain old Hamachi, which is still free for six or less connections per workgroup (you do have unlimited workgroups). It is excellent as it is almost as fast as an FTP connection, totally secure and will slide under most fire-walls. (It is the core transfer layer in LogMeIn and they can be installed side by side on client's computer with no issues.) Also there is TeamViewer which works on all platforms even your Smartphones, iPads and so on. I use it to do remote support of Linux computers and it has been very reliable and fast. Much faster and more reliable than UltraVNC which I previously used. I know real men and women do not use anything but PuTTY...no fancy GUI for them but I am too lazy and really like the convenience of pretty graphics. ;-) Here is a link to a list of 10 remote applications. Most have a free entrance level version with various levels of functionality: http://www.itpro.co.uk/625588/top-10-remote-desktop-applications Even though full version cost a few bucks it is great to be able to control your servers from you Smartphone or iPhone. Then there is Netmeeting which comes on all Windows computers. You will have to download it for Win7 but it will allow full remote access. If you need to access any Windows servers, they all automatically have a 3 license copy of TermServer (Cyrix), for admin purposes and can be subsequently accessed via any RDP client...all Linux distros have the client built in and maybe Mac does as well. Even Windows desktop systems come with the potential of a full TermServer but they have to be hacked so there can be more than one full connection allowed. Unfortunately, the DropBox type applications have data limits, unless you want to anti-up. Jim -----Original Message----- From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Hans-Christian Andersen Sent: Sunday, June 24, 2012 3:55 AM To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving Subject: Re: [AccessD] LogMeIn (was: Office 365 Re: You Guys make Me Sick) There is also Gdrive, DropBox, SpiderOak and a plethora of other services that are cross platform (and not Windows only). Hans On 2012-06-24, at 3:57 AM, Gustav Brock wrote: > Hi Mark > > This is where your creativity is called upon. > > Typically, most file transfer is needed shortly after you have initiated LogMeIn on the remote machine. For this you can use the 30-day free trial period for the Pro version. It will automatically revert to the free version when you don't pay (the rather steep price per month for the Pro version). > > After this, if the remote machine is not "locked down", we use FTP from one of our servers. > > Another option is SkyDrive whichs work across nearly any firewall. You may even install the tiny SkyDrive app which automatigally will sync a local folder of yours with a folder of yours on SkyDrive. > > Currently I work for a large corporation running a completely locked down Citrix environment. FTP is, of course, an absolute no-no, HTTP download is either very slow or blocked but SkyDrive (using HTTPS) came to rescue as I need to transfer files from our environment to my remote Citrix desktop at the client. > > But SkyDrive is free to use if you can manage to limit your storage to 7 GB. > > /gustav > >>>> marksimms at verizon.net 24-06-12 4:04 >>> > <snip> > Logmein for example: totally worthless without the File Manager to transfer files to/from host. > </snip> > > > -- > AccessD mailing list > AccessD at databaseadvisors.com > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com -- AccessD mailing list AccessD at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com