Need to look up a phone number on your home computer from the office? Or control the headless media server you set up at your buddy's place across town? Or help Mom figure out how to use Flickr? You already know that Virtual Network Computing (VNC) remote controls computers over the internet. But VNC is not a secure protocol - and it won't work if the remote machine is behind a firewall you don't control.
However, pairing up VNC with Hamachi, a Virtual Private Network application, you can remote control any computer securely over your private network across any combination of operating systems. Today we'll cover how to drive a computer over the internet with the free, secure and cross-platform VNC and Hamachi, the chocolate and peanut butter of remote computing.
And that's that! You're remote controlling your computer over a secure, encrypted connection.
For more VNC love, check out how to email your Mom a Single-Click VNC server that will connect to your viewer automatically.
Also, remember that Hamachi makes any server connection a secure one. You can also use Hamachi to make secure connections to your personal web server, home FTP server, home wiki installation, shared Windows folders, or simply use it to stream a remote iTunes library across the internet, too.
What's your favorite remote control or VPN software? Let us know in the comments.
3dogs says: Hamachi is a lifesaver if you forget a file but you know its on your home machine. Note to a competent, but not expert user; it really is easy to set up and use.
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