Yeah, thanks. I've used that one too. I forgot it has a host service for unattended! My parents/friends were always there to initiate... I will try it's host service. On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 2:59 PM, Erik Anderson <erikerik at gmail.com> wrote: > 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 >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > 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/20140124/0c13caa0/attachment-0001.html>