TeamViewer

The Howling Wolves said:

derekimo said:

CarlTR6 said:

Very cool, Doc.

That is cool, not much you cant do with Teamviewer.

Derek,
Bet you can't find a coach for the 49 ers or defensive coach for the Raiders on Teamviewer!

49ers are trying to get Jim Harbaugh from Stanford, Raiders just have to deal with Al Davis, that's their hurdle.

Thanks dude!!!

I have spent numerous hours trying to get PPTP VPN tunnels to work on my network/system following every great tutorial on these forums....even reading other posts that have issues.

Every protocol was followed and forwarded to the right place and everything should have worked.
Nothing would allow it to work. I finally stumbled across a thread one day on how Telus possibly blocked port 1723.
So I phoned them and kind of got an admission but they totally beat around the bush, nevermind the fact I am trying to speak to someone who can't even speak English.

So I wasted 3 days on this. I put the VPN option on the back burner for a while and have been looking at other options.

Now, recently I decided I want to try RDP. Actually, I did get Windows to work with RDP, but only one direction, and not the one I wanted. I need my Win 7 Professional laptop to be able to RDP to my Vista machines, all of which are Home Premium versions.

I could get the Vista machines to RDP to the Win7 machine because 7 Pro. can host an RDP session, but Vista Home Premium is not able to host an RDP session. So my good laptop that I travel with can't do what I need it to do.
Again, I wasted 2 or 3 days on that.

TeamViewer does it all. I am not sure exactly what protocol, or security it works on, but I am not transporting CIA material......at least not yet.......tee hee!!

Anywho. It has saved me alot of grief as I like to use Windows programs when possible, and I have a pretty good grasp on networking, and I consider myself smart enough to figure it out eventually....but MAN.

RDP and VPN have had me stumped for some time, and even getting RDP to work, it only works in "certain directions".

Doc, I am curious though, as I haven't researched it at all, what form or security of VPN is TeamViewer using?

I just wonder how secure it actually is, and is there a giant database in some mountain bunker where the TeamViewer corporate leaders are filtering/screening all the data that travels over the networks it creates......

LOL




Like I said, nothing travels my network that is of National Security standards or criminalistic, but just curious.

I love the program myself. Super easy to work with.

Is great it even works between Linux and Windows