vista basic vpn *and* rdp?

toasterman

ABH wrote: »

Have you tried teamviewer: www.teamviewer.com ?
HTH

For business use, it costs more than a Vista upgrade.
And the pc they're connected to is unattended. That requires someone to initiate the connection at the receiving end.

toasterman

Well the user in question upgraded from Vista Basic to Vista Business, and.....it still didn't work.
Turns out it doesn't work over their 3g internet connection they have through Three.
I'm still none the wiser really..

albertross_2

Ping? ...............

ABH_3

Well I've got the t-mobile offering and it seems to work using the afforementioned teamviewer, though admittedly the person I'm helping is usually sat at the computer at the time and can accept the incoming connection. With the mobile broadband offerings, they're presently being offered as an additional service and therefore the bandwidth limits are quite low. However, various articles I've read sugest that the thinking maybe changing and they're coming to the conclusion that there maybe a market for an all in one solution. All of which doesn't really help you, but fwiw I think that if your other user was perhaps on a contract broadband offering with a company like t-mobile, they may get more connection options, but don't take my word for it. Go ask in one of the broadband forums and see what they have to say:

http://www.3g.co.uk/3GForum/index.php?

http://www.talk3g.co.uk/forumdisplay.php?f=3

http://www.whatmobile.net/forumvb/index.php

Oh yes and as regards the unattended computer connection, can you change the bios options to perhaps 'wake on ring' then simply stick an old modem and a telephone line into it? Or set it up for 'wake on lan' if you can get it to connect permanently via a 3g modem for instance.

Or you could perhaps try 'WOL' http://www.dslreports.com/wakeup \ http://www.depicus.com/wake-on-lan/woli.aspx

and some additional reading for you:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broadcast_address
http://www.dynip.com/
http://www.madge.com/_assets/downloads/lsshelp8.0/LSSHelp/AdvFeat/WonLAN/WonLAN1.htm

from one of the pages listed above, I found this little tit-bit which might explain things: 'Most home routers will NOT route requests to the IP broadcast address (eg, 192.168.0.255, or 192.168.255.255). This makes it effectively impossible to wake up your PC over the internet using a WOL packet.

There is a workaround for routers that run linux, a manual iptables edit:
http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,13287946'

and this:
http://gaddgets.blogspot.com/2007/02/auto-wol-on-dd-wrt-on-linksys-wrt54gl.html

HTH