Best way to remotely access home network?

[hideki]

I'd like to remotely connect to my workstation on the home network from a laptop, what would be the best way?

The home network is behind a router, it has a windows 2003 active directory domain server for the users. Workstation is W7 Pro.

When connecting id like to access the current session rather than start a new one.

 

[Paul11]

teamviewer

 

[barrix]

+1 and its free for personal use

 

[foreright]

I would like to know also. Is it legal and would it work to say, use Teamviewer to allow a son to access your DVD archive from a different address.
How is this achieved please.

 

[Xez]

A VPN pass through may be ideal for this situation by the sounds of it. Then just RDC/UNC to the workstation or files you want.

 

[hideki]

Thanks all.

Teamviewer does seem to do the trick, according to this tutorial http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7383719242843704178#

I was expecting the process to be more difficult, unless there's going to be a problem accessing my network due to its setup.

 

[LizardKing]

Teamviewer is the bees knees at this, i've yet to come across a firewall that has defeated it as well!

 

[barrix]

I have used so many software for Remote access. Teamviewer is the best I have seen. It's easy, free and doesn't need a lot of effort. I use it to access my home desktop time to time. No issue with firewall at all +1.

 

[liamcrane]

+1 for team viewer one of the 1st apps i install on any machine i use.

Another alternate would be log me in but team viewer seems to get the nod with most people these days

 

[whitecrook]

Perhaps unusual but I use an SSH tunnel and RDP.

 

[KIA]

TV or LogMeIn.

 

[ecksmen]

I use OpenVPN (Adito) - its a free install

http://sourceforge.net/projects/openvpn-als/

You can configure it as much as you want - RDP / SSH.