Whenever I wanted to remotely connect to my home computer, I had to make sure the correct ports were forwarded in my router and the PC was statically assigned an IP address. I just learned about a program called TeamViewer through one of the guys I work with. It works very much like GoToMyPC or LogMeIn, yet it’s free for non-commercial use. Some of the capabilities of TeamViewer are:

• Remote Access/Remote Office
• Remote Support
• Meetings/Presentation

Like LogMeIn and GoToMyPC, TeamViewer allows web-based access to a computer without needing to run software on the remote machine. It also allows for file transfer between the remote computer and the computer you’re using. It can be executed without being installed. If it is installed, the remote computer can be configured to be accessed unattended. I’m going to see if I can execute it from my thumbdrive to access my home PC instead of using the web-based access.