The following screenshots demonstrate a little of what you can do with this system. Unfortunately, although you can manipulate programs on the remote computer, you cannot transfer files from that computer using the free option.
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As you can see, I have only one computer set up to access. The name there? He's the CTO of the company where I work.
Once you click on the computer you want to access, this login appears. You'll need the user name and password for the computer you are trying to reach. I'm not sure how this works with Windows-based computers.
You can be dull and mess around with preferences and read the help page first, or you can be cool and jump right in to remote access. Your choice.
The scene with a wooded landscape is my desktop at work. The monitor there is huge, and I suppose that's at least part of the reason for it not fitting my screen at home very well. 
This is the top left corner of the work computer I accessed after I opted for "Full Screen." As you can see, I am able to click on the various options on that computer.
Here's the top right corner. I can open any of these folders and read any of the contents from home.
Returning to the small view, I changed it to "Fit Screen." Now the entire screen from the work computer is tucked into this view.
Lastly, here's the "Full Screen" option combined with "Fit Screen."I didn't notice any significant glitches or bugs on my brief tour of LogMeIn, but I imagine there have to be some. Screen resolution isn't great, but it isn't terrible either. The inability to directly drag and drop files from the remote computer to the one you are using can be overcome, in a roundabout way, by e-mailing the files you want from the remote computer to yourself.
Check it out for yourself and see what you think. Any problems? Do you know of something better? Tell me about it in the comments on this post.
Check it out for yourself and see what you think. Any problems? Do you know of something better? Tell me about it in the comments on this post.
I tried this a while back when I was bedridden as a way to use my much older windows xp laptop to work with my brand new vista desktop.
ReplyDeleteThe desktop is an off-the-shelf compaq from Wal-mart and as such has very poor video and only 1 gig ram.
The laptop loved it, I was able to run the desktop just like I was sitting at it.
The desktop, however, didn't like it so much. If I left the program running while I was sitting at it, doing things directly instead of remotely, the program would suddenly take over all the memory and processor and cause vista to lock up.
I could never get any help on this problem. It seemed no one else was having this issue and they couldn't replicate it.
I'm sure it had something to do with video drivers and low memory. But Vista is about to become obsolete anyway, so maybe Windows 7 will do better.
Also, interestingly, the guys at Systm podcast just did an episode on this. I haven't watched it yet, but it looks like they only talk about Windows... but other readers here might find that interesting.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the comments. Good stuff, as always. I'm checking out that vid right now.
ReplyDeleteLooking forward to the Xubuntu post.