Hi Guys,
Leslie, I'll do the skating around here, OK? Hope all is OK for one and all with the Ice and other stuff.
OK enough with the friendly banter. Bert I do have a static here at the office so that is not really an issue. Years ago when we opened my first "guru" told me to make sure I got a static IP and so I did and that is the way our account has stayed.
But I was trying to avoid the remote desktop stuff only because I may really have the need to have more than one client get into the system at once. I didn't want to have Nancy or I trying to use the system from home while at the same time some contracted billing person was trying to access it too. Having to share the access could get old and reduce efficencies real fast.
"Hi Paul can I get some billing done?" "No sorry Nancy is charting right now and I'm waiting to get on so I can do my homework." Get the picture? So I just figured something that was relatively fast, secure and allowed mutliple users at the same time was the way to go. So someone here on the board suggested Hamachi (from LogMeIn) as a simplier solution. It just seems that most of the commercially available internet security packages are having some issues, even though Logmein claims a success rate of 95% for direct P2P tunnel connection (they are not even in the middle with their servers this means. Once they get you "bootstrapped" together they drop out of the picture and the rest of the session is completely private. Sounded pretty good to me.
But when I went to the Hamachi user board (what do those stupid idiots at user boards know anyway, right?
) there seemed to be many issues with Norton, with TrendMicro (our product right now, although Kerpinski has caught my eys as a great alternative) and a few others too. It was supposed to set most if not all of the stuff up for you with little or no input, but you know how PC's and their OS's and other issues are, Nothing ever seems to be that simple.
So I was just trying to remember who dropped the Hamachi idea on me, see what their experience has been with it and see who had any good ideas on the matter. Thanks much for the group replies
Paul
