Accessing My Home Pc From Uni

[spray]

Right, i have absolutely no knowledge of this whatsoever so a google search would have been pointless as i would have no clue what to search for.

basically, in my privately rented house at uni i have purchased a 512k adsl connection. its a very cheap one and thus i do not have access to certain features of the internet (bittorrent being the crucial one). At home also have a 512k adsl connection but this is a fully fledged one and i have no problems getting hold of all the O.C. and 24 episodes i could desire.

i would like to be able to access my home pc from uni with my laptop, tell it what to d/l and then transfer it from the home pc to my laptop. is this doable? what sort of software will i need?

thanks in advance

 

[declaration]

You'll need Real VNC. Just download that and install it on both, then set it up.

It's pretty straightforward really.

Then I guess you could have an FTP server running on your desktop and download from it via FTP.

 

[Rico]

You also need to ensure that your IP is static. If it isn't, you need to get some DNS program that will let you have a static address (like kicks-ass.net) so you can always access your computer by the same address.

 

[moz]

if its XP then use remote desktop, the RDP protocol is a lot better than VNC.
and uses port 3389 TCP dependant on the firewall your uni has you may have to tunnel it through ssh or change the port for RDP.

 

[declaration]

if its XP then use remote desktop, the RDP protocol is a lot better than VNC.
and uses port 3389 TCP dependant on the firewall your uni has you may have to tunnel it through ssh or change the port for RDP.

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yeah, Remote desktop,
Programs> Accessories> Remote Desktop Connection.

But thats only Windows compatible I think.

 

[moz]

if its XP then use remote desktop, the RDP protocol is a lot better than VNC.
and uses port 3389 TCP dependant on the firewall your uni has you may have to tunnel it through ssh or change the port for RDP.

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yeah, Remote desktop,
Programs> Accessories> Remote Desktop Connection.

But thats only Windows compatible I think.

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rdeskop for *nixes (client)

 

[yaustar]

he also wants to transfer files from home to uni, the best way would probably use ftp server software but your transfer rate will be 15k max..

 

[spray]

cheers guys, i'll sort this all out over the weekend