Instead, you??™ll need to use more traditional
means of transferring files. If the remote computer is on your
own LAN, you can drag and drop files right in Windows Explorer, as
described in Chapter 8. Otherwise, if you??™re connected to the remote
computer over the Internet, you??™ll either need to set up VPN to mimic a
workgroup (described earlier in this chapter) in order to access that PC??™s
shared folder, or use FTP.
Control Vista Home, Macs, Unix, etc. Remote Desktop Connection is not
your only choice when it comes to controlling a computer remotely.
Although there are several commercial alternatives available, one of the
best is a free program called VNC. There are actually several derivations
of VNC floating around the Web, but one of the best is TightVNC, available
at http://www.tightvnc.com/. Among other things, VNC has the
advantage of a very small ???viewer??? executable that doesn??™t even need to
be installed on the client PC, and there??™s a version available for almost
every platform (even Palm OS). It also lets both the person sitting in
front of the PC and the person controlling it remotely view the desktop
and even interact simultaneously.
Remote Desktop, when enabled, will remain enabled even if
the computer is restarted. But third-party programs must be
specially configured to start automatically with Windows in
case the computer crashes or the power goes out. VNC, for
instance, has an option to be started as a ???service??? (accessible
in services.
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