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Well, since we talk so much about remote access, I thought I would just let everyone know about this one. In a way, it's not all that solid looking or robust, but in a way it's cute and does things that none of the others do. I CERTAINLY WOULDN'T RECOMMEND USING IT TO CONNECT TWO OFFICES. So, don't even go there.

I would try the Beta. Even though it's a beta version, I think you have only 30 days to trial it. The price per month is nominal but compared with the Free LogMeIn or RDC, it's a hard sell. It gives you quite a few options such as sharing files with others and remote assistance.

The cool thing about it is not only can you take over your desktop at the office if it is installed both places (again not as robust as you may like but not too shabby), but while they are both connected in the background, you can access the files on each computer as if they are right there. I don't mean access the desktop and browse to the files. It's as if every drive is its own Windows Explorer. You will have to try it to understand. Give it a shot. I tried it for a month for fun.

http://www.wdc.com/en/products/software/index.asp?familyID=200

Wow! Usually, someone talks about a remote connection such as:

LogMeIn
GoToMyPC
RDP
VNC
VPN
RWW

and there are 100 comments.

Not one here. Hmmm.... strange.

This thing isn't that bad. It's actually kind of cool.

Bert I just had our IT people give me a 'shortcut' that will allow me to remote my desk (if I leave it on) instead of just the server. I have no idea what I am using, but it is not LogMeIn or GoToMyPC. The issue is that I want to show someone what we are doing in the office and I can't open the file where I have an excell spread sheet since we don't have a license to run Windows Office on the server. Microsoft = PITA '
On a side note I have an excell spread sheet that I am working on, to use as a flow sheet. I will start a thread on it shortly.

What I do to get to my excel is to remote into the server and then remote from there to one of the laptops with excel. Simple.

@Martin,

It sounds like they are doing Port Redirection with RDP. If you are using an RDC window from home, then that is what they are doing. You could always install Excel on the server and just not activate it. As long as you don't close it, you have up to 30 openings before you have to activate it. It's not a license issue.

@Vicki,

Depends on what you mean as remoting. If you are remoting to your server and then actually remoting to a desktop, are you using RWW from SBS? Not all server operating systems make it as easy as SBS to remote to other clients.

You could install open office to view the excel sheet which would not ruin it. You could probably manipulate the sheet unless you have complex formulas or macros. The new Excel 2007 format may have trouble with open office.

There is also freeware office document viewers that are available from Microsoft.

Of course this does not solve any remote access issues.

Geoff