I miss editing, and it's really bothering me that I was almost finished with a level before I moved out for college. The problem is, the computer I edited at my home, miles away, is a desktop, and the laptop I took for school isn't as powerful and capable enough to compile and easily play maps (it only has 256 MB of RAM). So, I was thinking: is there a way to control and use my desktop and its resources/programs from my laptop (through the internet connected in both of them)? I assume yes, when I found [url]www.gotomypc.com[/url]

But I don't fully understand how it works, and I'm wondering if anyone tried out this (or similar) service. From what I've read, the computer being controlled simply shows up as a browser window? Is it possible to open big programs like GtKradiant and Photoshop through my little, inferior laptop? I'm wondering about this.

You probably can't do what you want to do. Even directly connecting two computers using VNC I get lag even using the terminal or a text editor. Doing it over the internet, doing complex programs? Probably not going to happen.

Yeah, I use VNC to use my home PC from university, my connection isnt great (45kb/sec upload) and its a bit laggy when just using a text editor or something. I think it would be annoying slow to try level editing or anything on. However, you could use it for compiling.

You could use VNC, or remote desktop. I've found remote desktop, which is built into windows, to be faster.

You would have to be running XP Pro on the desktop at home though.

Have someone there Right click on my computer and go to properties. Then go to the Remote tab and check "allow users to connect remotely to this computer." Then you can add Users that are allowed to connect remotely.

If the desktop is behind a router you will have to forward port 3389.

Get a really long stick.

Install linux lol

Windows remote desktop. Using JED in software mode it should be possible to get work done, albeit slowly.

I can't seem to remote from school to my computer at the Inn, a port scan shows everything as 'filtered', or it won't connect, regardless of how I've got it set up

VNC is the best. But it took my 2 fastest computers (both 3.6ghz dual core) and a t1 connection before I was able to do anything complex remotely. I was finally able to play jedi academy from one computer to the other. Or open it and mess with settings because friends couldnt figure it out.

I've used a varient of 'GoToMypc' called GoToAssist and it's only in 256k color mode. I use WinXP remote desktop, and it works perfect inside my home network but I'm not editing between computers.

http://www.logmein.com

I've used it for a long time, it's free, has full color (but you can lower it if you require more speed), and does everything I want it to.

Is Remote Desktop Connection secure? Is it encrypted at all?

I could never get a straight answer, and so I've been wary of using it when not on a local network.

I didn't even know XP had that feature. Interesting. But from I can see, I'm guess I won't be editing that soon.

No, it's not, unless you tunnel it thru something that is encrypted.

VNC isn't either, by default, but there are versions that are encrypted.