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by jitorres61

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I am new at working with VPNs, I am working with Windows XP at my office and home and two other employees at their home. I would like to set up a VPN to be able to connect to my office computer even when someone else is logged in at the same time, and have security. I have DSL and am working with "Go to my PC" but I cannot log in when someone else is logged on. So my questions are; Do I need anything special as far as hardware to start and install a VPN? What are the steps to install a VPN in the office PC (main) and the other PCs? How do I begin (Installation Process and after it is installed) How do I start the VPN connection to the office from another PC? Tell me everything I need to know as if you were instructing a new student (or baby). Thank you very much.

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by tg2

XP Only allows control of one pc at a time.

If you are in front of the PC. you are logged in and using it. You can not have a second person connect and use the pc, without kicking the person locally at the machine off of it.

instead of "go to my pc" a paid service..

use Hamachi
https://secure.logmein.com/products/hamachi/vpn.asp?lang=en

"Logmein" is a similar service to "Gotomypc" but, you can make the whole thing much more simple, and create a VPN of networked computers and then use the tools you already have, rather than run someone else's application.

Hamachi will walk you through the install, and you do not need to register ... at the bottom of the registration screen is a "no thanks, just let me download"

Download, run the file on each pc you want to be in the VPN, give it a good name, but not obvious, and give it a very strong password.

Then you can use Remote Desktop Connection to connect from pc to pc.

If you add users to EACH pc and give them all passwords (userA, passwordA, is the same on all machines, userB, passwordB is same..etc.) then you can do things like drive mapping across the VPN interface to the other pc's and windows XP will take care of the authentication.

Hamachi also has the "bigger brother" client, the "Log Me In" client.. you don't want that, you just want the Hamachi client.

And agian.. same problem with Hamachi VPN ... only one logged in user at a time can control video, mouse, keyboard. If your intent is to thave two or more people seperately able to control a video mouse and keyboard on one machine, then what you want is called a Terminal Server, and that means installing a different OS from Microsoft.

by csheppard

I tried GoToMyPC, its okay but not that great. Go to www.logmein.com. I use that all the time, its free for 30 days then after that you'll have a choice to pay for the extra stuff that comes with it, or just continue to use what you have for free. I log into my home computer from work all the time, even when my wife is on it. You should give that a try.

Comes with real good security also. You can change all types of options to make it more secure.

Hope that helps.

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