Citrix or GoToMyPc

[Shimano105]

As an alternative to lugging heavy and expensive laptops around, has anyone used a thin client from their home machines?

I could have a fully loaded VM server farm on Hyper-V that I access via thin client whenever on client site. Is this doable?

I guess the biggest factors would be broadband upload speed and client VNC policies.

[mavster07]

Try LogMeIn. They have a free version and it works best. Totally web based....

[blacjac]

Try LogMeIn. They have a free version and it works best. Totally web based....

+1

Been using LogMeIn for years and the current software is really good.

[Shimano105]

Cheers, will try.

I will be connecting from client site to home pc for development, don't think I actually said that!

[blacjac]

Yeah I used to do that from a client site in a past contract.

Free version is more than adequate.

[Pondlife]

++1

Logmein free version is more than adequate.

Careful when installing. You want the free forever version NOT the 30 day trial.

Not as simple as it sounds.

[ribble]

I use a Terminal Services gateway. As it actually uses HTTP transport it generally works through corporate firewalls....

[xchaotic]

I on the other hand use NoMachine (NX).
It's very efficient on slow connection for a nice GUI and if I don't need the gui, I can simply ssh into it.

Many eons ago in a company with crazy policies any outbound traffic other than HTTP was disallowed. I tunneled ssh/nx in HTTP and it still worked