Helpextend» remote access http://www.helpextend.com been there: done that: seen that: fixed that Thu, 18 Feb 2010 20:15:33 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 How to get remote access, and file transfer for free http://www.helpextend.com/how-to-get-remote-access-and-file-transfer-for-free/ http://www.helpextend.com/how-to-get-remote-access-and-file-transfer-for-free/#comments Thu, 15 May 2008 16:12:46 +0000 Jason Mohan http://www.helpextend.com/?p=10 In this article, I’m going to describe how to get remote control, and file transfer options on each computer for free. This is very simple. I love logmein.com as I said before, but I think $12.95 a month is a bit high just to have file transfer capabilities (though the $12.95 includes file, printing, and sound capabilities) at least for me. To do this I’d recommend you first read my logmein article and my foldershare article, then follow the steps below. Though this doesn’t allow true file transfer capabilities, it will help you get a file to a pc, and vice versa. Click on the read more tag below for the step by step.
Now the Steps

1. Create a outbound folder on your pc, and all your remote pcs.

2. Then install foldershare on your pc, and all your remote pcs.

3. Then go to foldershare and synchronize the outbound folders for each computer.

4. Now place a file in your outbound folder on your pc, and in a few minutes (depending on the file size) the same file should be available on all your remote pcs.

Now that the file is available on all your computers in the outbound folder, just use logmein to copy the file to the folder you want. This avoids you paying the $12 bucks a months, takes a bit more work to setup at first. The next time you want to copy a file to your remote pcs, just place it in your pc’s outbound folder and whola in a few minutes it’s in your remote pc’s outbound folder also.

]]> http://www.helpextend.com/how-to-get-remote-access-and-file-transfer-for-free/feed/ 0 Access your computer remotely anywhere for free http://www.helpextend.com/access-your-computer-remotely-anywhere-for-free/ http://www.helpextend.com/access-your-computer-remotely-anywhere-for-free/#comments Sat, 10 May 2008 04:58:25 +0000 Jason Mohan http://www.helpextend.com/?p=6 I’ll show you how to use remotely control your computer for free. I know you can use VNC and I love that program, but you need to open two ports on your firewall if you try to access it from outside the network. Also if you only have one ip address for the internet it will only work on one computer. However at my house I have two servers with 10 virtual machines in them. However, I can take control of each of them individually with no poking holes in my firewall. How did I do it? I did it with logmein.com, for those of you who don’t know what it is, it’s bascially a site that allows you to take remote control of your computer for free anywhere there’s an internet connection. I’ve described the installation process below.

Installation Procedure

1. Go to www.logmein.com and create an account.

2. Now login to you logmein.com account.

3. At the top right hand corner click on add computer.

4. Choose the logmein free version.

5. Download and install the client.

6. Now go to another computer, and log into the logmein.com site, and remotely control your computer. That’s it.

No poking holes through firewalls, or complicated configurations. The beauty of logmein is that you can load the client on as many computers as you want under the same account with no cost. So you can load the client on your dad’s, or mom’s computer for free, and when they need computer help just log into the website and take control of their computer. Logmein has a file transfer, and remote printing capabilities also, but it costs $12.95 per computer a month for those capabilities.

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