John,

Ok.. So it sounds like WinXP can handle this pretty well. That's good to know.

I'm in the process of establishing a high speed connection to my home (for those really snowy days <g>) and we're looking at using static IP addresses for the security stuff. I'm glad to hear that there are alternatives.



>I go in via a VPN through a secure connection. Then I call up my specific machine by name and login to the network again...so it's pretty secure, 3 layers of authentication.
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>>Question... How do you get through your firewall or do you login first, then locate your internal IP address?
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>>>Yeah, upgrade to WinXP and use Remote Desktop. It's part of the OS and free. I use it all the time to connect in to my office PC. It supports virtually everything, including sound, streaming media (assuming a high speed connection). It rocks.
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>>>>Does anyone know of a good cheap version of something like PCAnywhere or Terminal server????
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>>>>THANKS