If it's strictly non-commercial (as in: helping your parents), TeamViewer is a decent option. On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 2:46 PM, Jeff Jensen <jjensen at apache.org> wrote: > Since the free version disappears soon (next week?), does anyone have good > free replacement suggestions? > > My use case is remote controlling (usually Windows) machines from my > laptop at any location. I did not use it very often though. > > LMI was a nice product solution for me as it had a service that connected > to their cloud without any firewall changes, so it was available wherever I > was ready to connect to it. > > Another way to ask this question is "how do you remotely support your > parents' Windows computer?", lol. > I also occasionally used it to remote into my home Windows or Linux > machines. > > VNC and other options require networking changes/setup, which possibly I > could do for my remote access to home, but not really for my parents or > other friends/relatives I may help. > > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20140124/f8726e99/attachment.html>