I wanted to connect to my home PC remotely...

I want to connect to my home PC remotely...

I'm at college now, but I didn't take a lot of files I wanted which are still on my computers at home. So I was wondering, is there any way I can somehow connect to the computers at home from my computer at college and transfer a bunch of files from my home computers?

My parents are at home so I guess they can install software there as long as it's not too difficult to do so, and I can install whatever I need to here.

Anyway, are there any programs that can do this? I have zero experience with this so I'm not sure where to look.

Edit: Sorry for the grammar mistake in the title, meant to say "want"

Operating System and is your computer directly connected to the internet or to a home router? Any software firewalls?

Both computers have Windows XP Home Edition. The computer at college is on the college LAN, and the computer at home is connected to a router. No software firewalls on either.

I would tell you to use remote desktop but that requires xp pro. You can get some temporary software such as radmin (http://www.famatech.com/download/index.php). You install on both client and server (computer at home). You can read the manual on how to configure. If you have windows xp firewall enabled (enabled by default on SP2) then you'd have to go into the windows firewall properties and add radmin to the program exception or just add the port as an exception. From there you configure a username/password on the server where the client connects to, and when you enter username/password from the client, you'll be able to view the screen on your computer at home.

I would just have your parents e-mail you the files though. That is of course they'll see some porno in your directories while navigating to your school files or whatever

Heh, problem is I need to transfer a whole bunch of data, on the order of 200gb+ (includes a very large collection of lossless music files).

What about those VNC programs I think I've read about, do they do the same things? Cause I think some of those are free.

Are your parents computer literate? If they're not and you've never done something like this, then good luck with that. Best thing would be to configure an ftp server and have parents share the directory you need, port forward 20 and 21 on your xp firewall (that is if you have sp2), set up an ftp account for you, and you'd be good to go.

OK - you have a cd burner at home? If so, think outside the box, not that hard. Second thought, someone should have thought ahead before going off to school. (I know, water over the dam)

MAn I take My PC wherever I go...

I use RealVNC to conenct to my XPhome computer cause I love Dual monitors and I ahve 2 monitors and 2 computers.. .so that puts me in a bind...


I dont know if it works ovr the web, but no doubt there is a VNC client that does

Make a nice tough PAssword.. .then if your home PC has dynamic IP you stil lneed tomake a no-ip account and instal lthe software on your home PC.

This will translate your IP into a yourchoice.no-ip.com URL that you can use to connect.

(Either that or develop a script to have your home PC email you of any IP changes. (periodic ipconfig results?)


If you are behind a router you will also need to setup a static private IP and enable portforwarding on the appropriate ports for the software you choose

If you dont mind paying, PC Anywhere will work great and there is that new one, gotomypc that is also available and I suppose is n00bilishious