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Naked Snake

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Damn this shit is cool, simply by writing down my home PC's IP address before leaving to work in the morning (DSL connection, dynamic IP), I can connect to my home PC from work and do whatever I want... I'm currently downloading songs at home while I'm pretending to work at my job office, I can even burn them to CD when I'm done because I put a blank disc in the tray before leaving.

Other useful features for this include: Having access to your porn stash and being able to view it without leaving any trace! (No cookies, internet cache, browser history, etc on work PC)... And I just thought that I could hookup a webcam at home and keep an eye on my room and how my pets are doing... hey I can even play them music :lol

I never bothered to use or check this extremely simple feature in Windows before, but I needed it to solve work-related issues recently and quickly realized the other possibilities... Anyone else have fun with this?

I have a question, is there a way to write a batch file or a small program that would get the IP address of the PC it's running on every X minutes and email it to me automatically? That would be useful in case the internet connection dies and redials, resulting in IP address change.
 
Naked Snake said:
Other useful features for this include: Having access to your porn stash and being able to view it without leaving any trace! (No cookies, internet cache, browser history, etc on work PC)...
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Make sure you turn off the client's bitmap cache option if you do that. (Options->Experience->Bitmap caching.) :lol

Naked Snake said:
I have a question, is there a way to write a batch file or a small program that would get the IP address of the PC it's running on every X minutes and email it to me automatically? That would be useful in case the internet connection dies and redials, resulting in IP address change.
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http://www.dyndns.org/services/dns/dyndns/
 
demi said:
Use VNC instead.
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Why?

It's been a while but last I used it VNC wasn't as fast or reliable as RDC.

It also doesn't handle audio, printers, drives, serial ports, or smart cards.
 
aaaaa0 said:
Why?

It's been a while but last I used it VNC wasn't as fast or reliable as RDC.

It also doesn't handle audio, printers, drives, serial ports, or smart cards.
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You can use it to peek on your PC and see if anyone is using it, since RDC locks the PC on the other side(?)

And if they are, simply take control and write them a friendly message:

GET OFF MY FUCKING COMPUTER ASSHOLE
 
Naked Snake said:
What I meant by elaborate was closer to your previous post... Why should I use VNC instead?
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Some of the reasons you might consider using VNC over RDC:

A. You don't have Windows XP Professional. RDC is only on XP Pro, not Home Edition.
B. You don't have an RDC client on your machine and you're not allowed to install one.
C. You need to use the same protocol to connect between lots of Windows and non-Windows machines.

Otherwise I'd stick with RDC.
 
Jeffahn said:
Anyone know of anything similar where you don't have to be logged in as Admin?

...
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You don't have to be an admin to use Remote Desktop. Just add the users you want to allow to connect to the whitelist.

My Computer->Properties->Remote->"Select Remote Users...", and add whoever you want.
 
I also use Win XP Remote Desktop from work. But yesterday I installed a new router at my house and for some reason I can't access my computer from work anymore. Is the router blocking my connection ?
 
Sh0k said:
I also use Win XP Remote Desktop from work. But yesterday I installed a new router at my house and for some reason I can't access my computer from work anymore. Is the router blocking my connection ?
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Configure your router so that it forwards port 3389 (TCP) to your host computer.
 
impirius said:
Configure your router so that it forwards port 3389 (TCP) to your host computer.
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Thanks for the reply. So in other words what I need to do is forward port 3389 to the IP that the router assigns to my host computer and it should work ?
 
I'm a big fan of VNC (especially with my Mac) but I still prefer to use RDC when connecting to a Windows box. It's a bit faster, has automatic domain logins, simple sound support, etc.
 
This sounds interesting but what if your employer can take screen captures of your desktop at work? Wouldn't he/she also capture whatever was on your home desktop?

How do these programs work? Do you view your home PC in a window or something?
 
There's an activex object that you can embed in a webpage so you can control your desktop through IE.

Yeah I know that sentence probably raises a lot of red flags with the security concerned people, but it's still way cool to be able to access your pc from any computer with IE in it.
 
So if all someone knows about you is your (static) IP address, they can control your computer? I didn't know it was so easy to hijack a computer...now I know why Remote Desktop is the one of the first things you should turn OFF according to the security/spyware websites. They at least should add some more safeguards or passwords or something to make it more secure.
 
Wax Free Vanilla said:
How do I rig this up to work on three PCs at home on a LAN? One system is in the living room and two upstairs in seperate bedrooms. I want to control the two upstairs completely from the PC in the living room. Help. :)
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Download the full TightVNC package. Install TightVNC Server on all 3 PC's, set a password for each and note the IP address or hostname of each, and set it to start as a service.

Launch the viewer portion on any of the 3 pc's, enter the hostname of the machine you wish to control... tada! As long as the machine is at least at the login prompt(if you have logins) the TightVNC service will be running.

Note if you have firewall and/or spyware software on the machines they may prompt you when you install and when you run the server portions... just make sure to tell them the program is ok. Tightvnc may be reported as realvnc, which is ok.
 
Mr. E. Yis said:
So if all someone knows about you is your (static) IP address, they can control your computer? I didn't know it was so easy to hijack a computer...now I know why Remote Desktop is the one of the first things you should turn OFF according to the security/spyware websites. They at least should add some more safeguards or passwords or something to make it more secure.
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No, you need an login name and password too. RDC is way better than VNC if it's an option for you for simply the speed alone.
 
And as usual I'll chime in to(pimp) say that if you really don't want to deal with trying to figure out static ip's, configuring RDC, security concerns, enabling ports on your router... just go with a free service like.

www.logmein.com
www.mywebexpc.com
 
Jeffahn said:
Anyone know of anything similar where you don't have to be logged in as Admin?

...
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You dont' have to be an admin for RDC to work. You just have to be either an administrator on the box or in the Remote Desktop Users group on the remote PC.
 
I stream tv over the internet, so I can pick it up on my PDA around town. And I use RD to turn the channel :lol Fucking rock.
 
impirius said:
Yep!
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Or configure SSH tunnel unless you want someone trying to hack your desktop directly. Only open the SSH port and open an SSH tunnel, then run your VNC or RDC client through the tunnel. That's how I get to my OSX Server from here at work or anywhere else.
 
DarienA said:
Download the full TightVNC package. Install TightVNC Server on all 3 PC's, set a password for each and note the IP address or hostname of each, and set it to start as a service.

Launch the viewer portion on any of the 3 pc's, enter the hostname of the machine you wish to control... tada! As long as the machine is at least at the login prompt(if you have logins) the TightVNC service will be running.

Note if you have firewall and/or spyware software on the machines they may prompt you when you install and when you run the server portions... just make sure to tell them the program is ok. Tightvnc may be reported as realvnc, which is ok.
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Thanks Darien :)


It's all come together as one. :D
 
Mr. E. Yis said:
So if all someone knows about you is your (static) IP address, they can control your computer? I didn't know it was so easy to hijack a computer...now I know why Remote Desktop is the one of the first things you should turn OFF according to the security/spyware websites. They at least should add some more safeguards or passwords or something to make it more secure.
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They need to know your windows login name and password, so it's not as easy as you make it sound.
 
aaaaa0 said:
Some of the reasons you might consider using VNC over RDC:

A. You don't have Windows XP Professional. RDC is only on XP Pro, not Home Edition.
B. You don't have an RDC client on your machine and you're not allowed to install one.
C. You need to use the same protocol to connect between lots of Windows and non-Windows machines.

Otherwise I'd stick with RDC.
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IAWTP - Once you've been using RDC for a while, using any VNC is painful.
 
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