Anyone vpn from their laptop to their tower/server?
 

I saw someone mention on another thread that they always vpn to their desktop from their laptop which is a pretty good idea.

How many of you use VPN? What software do you use and why?

vpn? you mean remote desktop or vnc in?
its easy to do if you use something like www.realvnc.com or

lol yeah I meant vnc, whoops

i use remote desktop between two laptops (mac and pc) to my tower pc on a daily basis. my tower is a bit older but i use it a lot for running processes and scripts. plus everything is on there and backed up to a nas drive nightly.

only thing i hate is i have a multi monitor setup on my tower and when i rdc in, it sometimes fucks up the layout of stuff (screen sizes, folder placement, etc).

remote desktop is easy to set up as long as you have a version of windows professional (XP pro is what i use). insert the disc and its on of the optional installs. then go thru your router and set your towers pc port to 3389 and rdc to your IP address.

Before I opened the thread I was going to say "I am not sure, but I saw someone mention that they do it earlier."

Apparantly you saw it too and I can't help. :Oh crap

ok remote desktop is nice, works great.