Remote access software
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Another vote for Hamachi. Discovered this freebie last week and it's bloody amazing. I was previously fumbling around trying to get the built-in VPN stuff in Windows to do what I want but 1) it doesn't support IPX (for old games) and 2) it kept crashing my 510v4 router after several logon attempts by remote users.
Ended up with Hamachi, very impressive piece of kit. It does all of its tunneling via UDP so no need to start messing around mapping PPTP protocols with your router.
In short... Hamachi + Remote Desktop (built in to Windows) and you have a solution.
VNC is OK but it's not very "Windowsie" and the GUI is quite clunky the last time I saw it.
PS: At first I was wary of Hamachi because traditionally VPN software has to install kernel-mode virtual network drivers, and these would be third party ones at that... Whilst Hamachi does indeed install a virtual network adapter - it is nothing more than a "stub", it's practically just the text book example of such a driver that Microsoft gives out. 20KB compiled. All of Hamachi's logic is in the user-mode inside Hamachi.exe and thus it can _never_ BSOD your system
Ended up with Hamachi, very impressive piece of kit. It does all of its tunneling via UDP so no need to start messing around mapping PPTP protocols with your router.
In short... Hamachi + Remote Desktop (built in to Windows) and you have a solution.
VNC is OK but it's not very "Windowsie" and the GUI is quite clunky the last time I saw it.
PS: At first I was wary of Hamachi because traditionally VPN software has to install kernel-mode virtual network drivers, and these would be third party ones at that... Whilst Hamachi does indeed install a virtual network adapter - it is nothing more than a "stub", it's practically just the text book example of such a driver that Microsoft gives out. 20KB compiled. All of Hamachi's logic is in the user-mode inside Hamachi.exe and thus it can _never_ BSOD your system
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