Help with pcAnywhere 11.0

[robriguez]

I'm lazy so I will just ask rather than bother looking up the info myself.

1) Can RealVNC work with dialup modems like PCA can?
2) Can you assign any port to use?
3) Does it support File transfer and remote printing as well as Remote control?

I use PCA extensively on the 800+ networks I/we support at work due to the requirements listed above. We are adding approx 10 networks/month and not having to spend $150+ each can add up quick. If it CAN do these three things I think I just found my new communications package.

 

[FastEddy]

Yes
Yes
No

There are other free programs that do have file transfer. tightVNC being one of them.
Remote printing isn't one of the features I have looked into.

 

[bigfreak]

It sounds like you've solved your imediate problem. I though I might suggest some advice for the future.

My issue is I don't have a fixed IP.
To get fixed IP addys in the 3 locations will cost me a total of $60.00 a month more in addition to the already over priced access fees.

With three locations on high speed DSL, you would benifit greatly from a hardware implemented VPN. It will fix the dynamic IP problem (just use the private IPs for pcAnywhere). It will increase security. Last but not least, it will allow you to do file sharing between locations (no more emailing files around).

I suggest the Sonicwall line of products. In our offices we use the TELE3 SP units. There may be a product that better suits your situation, but in our case we needed to have 56K access for some offices. The TELE3 SP lends itself well to both broadband and dialupthat (runs a little over $500 each).

good luck with it

(PS I've found that pcAnywhere does a better job than VNC in a lot of respects. But I'm not here to convince the world of that so I have no problem agreeing to disagree.)

 

[HumboldtBlazer]

I'm lazy so I will just ask rather than bother looking up the info myself.

3) Does it support File transfer and remote printing as well as Remote control?

Hmm remote printing, well yes if you want to login into a remote machine and tell it to print at it's location, it is possible and as easy as hitting print. Now if you want to initiate the print from your local machine to the remote PC, then no that is not supported. File transfer is not supported as mention but a simple file server or FTP server will take care of that for you. What can you say it is free.

It sounds like you've solved your imediate problem. I though I might suggest some advice for the future.



With three locations on high speed DSL, you would benifit greatly from a hardware implemented VPN. It will fix the dynamic IP problem (just use the private IPs for pcAnywhere). It will increase security. Last but not least, it will allow you to do file sharing between locations (no more emailing files around).

I suggest the Sonicwall line of products. In our offices we use the TELE3 SP units. There may be a product that better suits your situation, but in our case we needed to have 56K access for some offices. The TELE3 SP lends itself well to both broadband and dialupthat (runs a little over $500 each).

good luck with it

(PS I've found that pcAnywhere does a better job than VNC in a lot of respects. But I'm not here to convince the world of that so I have no problem agreeing to disagree.)

Good info, hardware VPN is always the coorect way to go. The mission here was free or close to it. Mission accomplished.

 

[mcvickj]

I was introduced to VNC about 3 years ago and have never looked back. It is a great program for being FREE. The flavor I use is TightVNC. I've looked at a few others but never really like them. Someone on the TightVNC listserv mentioned using a program called KaboodleProxy you can file share between the two machines in question. I don't know much about the program because I perfer to just FTP the small stuff.

For VNC to work at home I need to port forward the ports to my machine. That is simple. Just open 580x and 590x to the computer. I have three machines that have VNC installed. So I use the manual port setup feature of TightVNC and just increase x by 1 for each machine.

EDIT: I forgot to mention I use NOIP.com. Another free Dynamic DNS service. The reason I chose to use them is because they offer a free client for Windows, Linux and MacOS to run on the computer and it will check your IP address at a given time interval checking to see if your IP has changed

 

[HumboldtBlazer]

All I can say is in a world of technology where you pay out your ass for everything, FREE sure is nice!

 

[FastEddy]

It is amazing how much good stuff can cost. When it comes to software there are some great alternatives available for low cost to no cost. Some of the no cost options are better than their grossly overpriced counterparts.

PC anywhere is $199.00 per copy. If I used 3 licenses for this project It would have cost me $600.00 plus $20.00 x3 per month for static IPs I saved $1,300.00 this year. my cost was a $10.00 donation to the author. I use a totally free e-com system for my website. To get the same features from a paid solution I would have had to spend a minimum of 10k.

If you google, you will find..