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Access to shared folders via VPN

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bonoz

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I want to remotely access my data sitting at my home computer. I have created a VPN network. I can now access my data through my laptop as if the data was sitting on my laptop.

I want to have similar way to access my data through my Android phone. Is there an app I can use to access my VPN pc and access all the shared folders?

Thanks
 
Most Explorers let you do that (I think). I can see all my shared folders through File Expert or FX Explorer.

TeamViewer lets you actually log in and have total control of your PC. I uninstalled it because I think their idea of "personal use" and mine are real different.

I really like Webkey for viewing phone from PC.
 
I have a friend that does that.. He works for raydon... I know he does that with his evo... Not sure the prog name though ill ask...
 
Anyone have an idea of what "personal use" means? I notice Teamviewer is $800 if used for "commercial use". My "main" use is to help the wife find something on my home computer if I'm at work.... but once in while when I'm at home on a weekend and an employee needs a file off my work computer, it's great to be able to log in and move a file or email a file to him. I ask because Teamviewer has lots of pop-ups stating "This is for personal use only". To me, even though an action is related to business, it's really for my personal use so I don't have to drive 20 miles to work to get a file off my PC. I just don't want to receive a bill for $800 6 months from now because I transferred 3 files from my work computer. This is great software, that I use maybe twice a month.

Don Suave said:
+1 for cross-platform Teamviewer! It's been a godsend to me for well over a year already.
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tcat007 said:
Anyone have an idea of what "personal use" means? I notice Teamviewer is $800 if used for "commercial use". My "main" use is to help the wife find something on my home computer if I'm at work.... but once in while when I'm at home on a weekend and an employee needs a file off my work computer, it's great to be able to log in and move a file or email a file to him. I ask because Teamviewer has lots of pop-ups stating "This is for personal use only". To me, even though an action is related to business, it's really for my personal use so I don't have to drive 20 miles to work to get a file off my PC. I just don't want to receive a bill for $800 6 months from now because I transferred 3 files from my work computer. This is great software, that I use maybe twice a month.
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I use it every other day. Over 10 times a month. Mainly to support friends' and relative's Macs in a kind of SysAdmin/helpdesk/troubleshooter role. Using RDP software saves a LOT of time, and consequently money! My 'clients' get near instant 'service' from me, because I'm just a phone call away, and I don't have to go there through heavy, dangerous, and polluting traffic, burning gas, and exchange time-consuming pleasantries. Which is just as well because one of them lives in the Caribean...

I prefer to run Teamviewer on my Macs' or MBP's big screens of course, but if need be I can also do it from my phone in the middle of attending someone else's wedding...

That's been my m.o. for over a year now and I haven't received a bill from Messrs. Teamviewer yet. So I suppose it qualifies as 'personal use'.
The minute I start charging for my SysAdmin/helpdesk/troubleshooter services it's a different ballgame. But in that situation I wouldn't hesitate to plunk down 800 bucks for Teamviewer either. I know it works, and the competition I've seen is well over 900 bucks!
 
Kind of what I was thinking... if you charge money for the actual use of it, it's probably worth buying. If you use it to save a little personal time and gas, even for work, it's "personal". I just got a little concerned the other day when I logged into my computer to grab a 10mb file to email to an employee that needed it on a Saturday, as soon as the email was sent, TeamView automatically disconnected with the pop-up "This is not for commercial use..." or something like that. Maybe they monitor the amount of data moved?
 
tcat007 said:
I just got a little concerned the other day when I logged into my computer to grab a 10mb file to email to an employee that needed it on a Saturday, as soon as the email was sent, TeamView automatically disconnected with the pop-up "This is not for commercial use..." or something like that. Maybe they monitor the amount of data moved?
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No, that's Teamviewer's standard pop-up message when you use it to move large files with the non-commercial version.
The other day I tested Teamviewer's LFT (Large File Transfer) capabilities against WeTransfer.com's and sent a 1,7GB file. It gave me the same message.
 
They do have hundreds of thousands of downloads, I'm sure some use is "marginal". I did email them to try to get a better definintion (after reading an article that some software companies make their money by going after abusers)... their response:

The free version can only be used in a private environment - for example if you help friends or relatives in your free-time and do not receive any money for it.
Commercial use is every usage which has to do with your work life. This means that if you use it at work or support customers and colleagues it is commercial usage. Therefore you are not allowed to use the free version of TeamViewer in any office environments. As soon as one of the PCs participating in a session is connected to a commercial network (office/school/etc.) it is considered commercial use.

Didn't mean to send this thread a little off topic.
 
Therefore you are not allowed to use the free version of TeamViewer in any office environments.
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What is an "office environment"? Since laptops, which is 25 years, the office is everywhere! Teamviewer can't claim 'everywhere' to be off-limits.
And are those ToS otherwise legal where you live? Have they been tested yet in a court of law?
 
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