Elmojo

Seems reasonable. Any VPNs that are fairly simple to set up, and don't have horrific overhead? Pricing is also an issue of course. We have fairly slow (~20Mb DSL) internet on both ends of this connection, so especially the upstream is going to be a problem I suspect.

Thanks for the replies, but none of the 'cloud'-type solutions will work for us. I need direct access to our physical machine, similar to how I can log in via Teamviewer, except I don't need to directly manipulate the server desktop, I just need access to the drives. Basically, I need an easy way to set up a web server for what's on our primary data drive, if such a thing exists. We do government contract work, so all cloud services are disallowed. VPN is an option, but too much of a hassle to set up and generally too slow, I've used it before. I was hoping there was some new magic option that I wasn't aware of....doesn't sound like it. EDIT: Actually, ownCloud seems like it might be an option, but I'm not clear on where "server" is. Is it my machine, with the server-side software installed, or is there still an off-site 'cloud server' in the middle somewhere. Anyone know?

What sort of nags are you seeing on Teamviewer? I use it daily on MANY machines, and have never felt pressured to buy a license. The worst i ever see is the pop-up each time I close a session saying that it was a sponsored session... What sort of limits? If you're getting kicked off, that may be more of a technical issue, unless it's giving you a specific message? Can you post an image of what you're seeing?

Hi all, Been enjoying LTT videos for a while now, and nearly every one urges me to come join the forums, so here I am! I have what I hope is a fairly simple issue that I think you folks can help out with. At my office, we use a dedicated Windows 7 Pro desktop as a simple file 'server'. It's worked fine for our needs for several years now. We do online and offline backups continuously, and so far have had zero issues. Recently, a couple of us have started working from home a bit more, so it would be nice to be able to directly access the 'server' at work from home, preferably through a mapped drive. Is there any fairly simple, secure, way to accomplish this with the hardware and software we have? Currently, we're just manually lugging stuff around with flash drives or copy/pasting via Teamviewer, but that's tedious, and prone to unintentional overwrites. I'm not opposed to some additional helper software, as long as it's clean and not bloaty. I'm the sysadmin for our office, so I can configure things however I want, as long as it improves the working situation. Thanks in advance for any advice. Please let me know what additional details you might need from me. -E