remote pc access

[bottletopburly]

How hard/easy is it too set my win 10 PC up in the shed so I can access it's desktop from my win 10 PC in the living room , so I can keep an eye on the subs /imaging , though I will probably need a wifi repeater 

[Dr_Ju_ju]

If they are Pro versions, then you can use remote desktop, but there's also Team Viewer 10, secure VNC etc...

[redtail]

I use Team viewer 11

[Frank the Troll]

I use Radmin

 

[r3i]

My weapon of choice is TightVNC but TeamViewer seems to be the most popular these days.

I monitor my Windows 10 laptop from my Android tablet or desktop PC.

[bottletopburly]

Thanks i will give teamviewer a look first 

[steppenwolf]

Another vote for TeamViewer, here.

[hughgilhespie]

I use Microsoft's Remote Desktop Protocol which I am told is better than Teamviewer. I am very far from an expert and I had help to set it all up but it does work very smoothly. As Julian pointed out, you need a certain grade of Windows on the remote machine, Pro or above I think. As far as I know - but could be wrong - the other machine can have any flavour of Windows. My remote machine is a second hand Dell Laptop with an Ebay sourced Windows 7 Pro. My desktop is Windows 10 Home. That combination definitely works. One perhaps theoretical advantage I understand is that Microsoft RDP supports multiple monitors if you want to set up your own NASA control room.

Regards, Hugh

[Davey-T]

Used to use RDP on two Win XP Pro machines but when one died and I went to Win7 it refused to work any more so now use Teamviewer with no problems.

Dave

[bottletopburly]

teamviewer up and running thanks, cool will try out tomorrow with pc in shed 

[snowy911]

If the wifi struggles to the shed, as mine does, you could also use a couple of network power line adapters. My linksys ones have been great for several years now. Recently upgraded to the 3 port ones, and have a Foscam ip camera in there as well.

[bottletopburly]

I did think about a power line adapter but my shed is on a separate ring , and I was under the impression you need to be on the same ring circuit anyone know if that's true .

[derrickf]

I use powerline across different ring circuits and it works reasonably well despite there being at least 2 RCDs in the network path - I use 200Mbps adapters and get a reliable data transfer rate of about 10Mbytes / second (80Mbps) - almost double that between the fastest segments of the network. Remote desktop works fine and it only takes a couple of minutes to transfer a night's images from the computer in the observatory to one of my machines in the house.

This thread confirms that several people have a similar experience operating across rings but, as the Americans say, YMMV.

 

HTH

Derrick

[bottletopburly]

Cheers will look into that

[bottletopburly]

Power line adapter now fitted in shed £25 from maplins ,computers now communicating through team viewer 11,, BRILLIANT  team viewer was fairly painless to configure , cheers everyone , oh and the power line works fine even though it's on a different circuit , maplins guy said works through the earth ?