Hamachi - Simple Remote Access VPN

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Will you have to wait long for Hamachi to be upgraded to that it'll deliver the print job to your home?

can we not have hamachi running on one machine, and then access to that machine by simply creating a VPN connection to that IP by creating a dialup VPN from any windows 2000/XP system.
If yes what will be the parameters for the UserID, Password and the Domain.

This is really important.

No, you simply need Hamachi running on both machines.

why cant i connect to www.hamachi.cc...im just using windows firewall that comes with windows xp...tnx

I too use Hamachi. Its a good software. But I dont understand how you can use it to remote control the client. Also, I don't understand how you can print to a hamachi client.

Suppose I install Hamachi on one computer in a Lan, why can't I access other computers on the same Lan from the internet? I think that is a major drawback with Hamachi.

Hamachi needs to be installed on all computers participating in your VPN. Once you do that, you can print directly to any printer shared by one of those machines as if they were on your local network. You can't remote control using Hamachi itself, that's not what it does, but with Hamachi running you can then run remote desktop across your VPN and remote control any machine that supports it.

I set up Hamachi on two computers and successfully networked them together. However, I can't seem to do a lot of things you'd expect to do on networked computers. For example my printer doesn't show up when I search network for printers. Also I thought iTunes would work after I set up song sharing on a network. Any thoughts on what I might be doing wrong? By the way, you mentioned GoToMyPC as an alternative VPN tool. Have you tried LogMeIn. It's basically the same thing as GoToMyPC, but free.

Make sure "Block vulnerable windows services" isn't checked in preferences. I regularly print remotely over my Hamachi VPN.

I, too set up Hamachi as a service on a XP Pro SP2 box. The box is on a domain. Suddenly, my print spooler service quits and I can no longer print from this box. Ideas??

Jeff

Leo,

RealVNC is great software, but it's got nothing to do with VPN, except that it can use one and lots of people only use their VPNs for VNC.

Also, OpenVPN is some pretty nice VPN software, if you have the wits and means to set it up.

Phil

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