Just Getting into Remote PC Use

[ShadowWolf810]

Hi all, I'm just now getting curious about accessing my PC on the go and am looking for advice about the best way to do it. I've seen a little about ASUS HomeCloud software that would work on my motherboard but I'm wondering if there's a better option or what other people like better before I go ahead and install it and start playing around with it. 

 

I don't really know much about this sort of thing, I assume some sort of program is required to do anything easily. Any and all advice would be appreciated! Thanks. 

[iRileyx]

Team viewer would be the easiest way imo. Might not be the best but it works

[Electronics Wizardy]

id use rdp built into windos.

[ShadowWolf810]

1 minute ago, RKRiley said:

Team viewer would be the easiest way imo. Might not be the best but it works

Is there any sort of program that could be run on my PC that wouldn't need to be downloaded on whatever computer I was trying to access it from. i.e logging into a browser on the other end and getting access? 

[ShadowWolf810]

5 minutes ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

id use rdp built into windos.

Looked it up, says both machines would have to be running the program, would be nice to access my windows pc from macs as well. Unless I'm misunderstanding. Is there anything that would have it act like a file server that could just be logged into from somewhere else, or generated a special URL for someone to download something regardless of what computer/os/browser etc? 

[Electronics Wizardy]

1 minute ago, ShadowWolf810 said:

Looked it up, says both machines would have to be running the program, would be nice to access my windows pc from macs as well. Unless I'm misunderstanding. Is there anything that would have it act like a file server that could just be logged into from somewhere else, or generated a special URL for someone to download something regardless of what computer/os/browser etc? 

you can connect to rdp on a mac or linux system or phone.

 

If you want a file server, make a http server, or ftp or use something like own cloud.

[ShadowWolf810]

2 minutes ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

you can connect to rdp on a mac or linux system or phone.

 

If you want a file server, make a http server, or ftp or use something like own cloud.

Can you go a little into how you'd make a http server, and what the difference between that and a ftp are? These could all be accessed outside my local network correct?

 

[Electronics Wizardy]

1 minute ago, ShadowWolf810 said:

Can you go a little into how you'd make a http server, and what the difference between that and a ftp are? These could all be accessed outside my local network correct?

 

http is a web site basically. The lazy easy way is to just point it to a file and then you can go like myserver.mydomain/files/test.txt You can then go through the folders and download what you wan. ALl you need is a browser and it will download like any other file out there. With some basic config you can require a usename and password. With some more config you can make it look like what ever you want

 

Use ownclould if you want a easy plug and play solution.
 

ftp is a wan file transfer. You use a program like filezilla to download your file.

 

 

[ShadowWolf810]

2 minutes ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

http is a web site basically. The lazy easy way is to just point it to a file and then you can go like myserver.mydomain/files/test.txt You can then go through the folders and download what you wan. ALl you need is a browser and it will download like any other file out there. With some basic config you can require a usename and password. With some more config you can make it look like what ever you want

 

Use ownclould if you want a easy plug and play solution.
 

ftp is a wan file transfer. You use a program like filezilla to download your file.

 

 

When you say "config" where exactly would you be doing that for an http one? Is this like coding in a text editor or editing a .html file? And for the ftp, there's no way to just do a direct download without some other program? 

[Electronics Wizardy]

1 hour ago, ShadowWolf810 said:

When you say "config" where exactly would you be doing that for an http one? Is this like coding in a text editor or editing a .html file? And for the ftp, there's no way to just do a direct download without some other program? 

config is html and other normal apache stuff.

 

ftp can often just be used in a web browser with ftp://

[Guest]

Your best way of doing it would be using an L2TP or OpenVPN client to site VPN arrangement and then using remote desktop services within the local network. Exposing a system to remote access from the outside world is not recomended.