Need to control my work mac from home

Hello all wise and knowing. I have a G5 at home and 1 at work. I need to be able to control my work computer from home with decent speed. I have a T1 at work and cable at home, but I don't know how to acheive my goal. I tried Chicken of the VNC, but its horribly horribly horribly slow. I read about remote desktop, but it doesn't seem to be what I need. Anyone have a suggestions? Please.......

VNC is the only free option. If you're willing to spend money and ARD doesn't do what you want, you could look into Netopia's Timbuktu or the just-announced PC Anywhere 12.0 from Symantec which now supports Macs.

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I currently work from home as a brand designer. I'm thinking of moving away (turning the home into a business and buying another home) - What's the best way to still have access to my main (work) Mac from home and what hardware is involved? I need to be able to work on the same files and not worry about having multiple versions on 2 different computers which will obviously create probs! Being a designer I work on large image files - something to bear in mind I think?
Thx 4 any help.

The technical is easy. The practical is not. First the technical. Assuming that you will have an office LAN with your workstation, server, etc. the best method of connecting is a VPN. This is safe (read secure) and is generally pretty simple to set up. Assuming you have a Firewall/VPN in place, the cost to configure for your Mac should be trivial. On the high end, < $100 for a vpn client like VPN Tracker. Check your Firewall/VPN vendor for a Mac client. If they have one than no need to pay for a client. Other method include port maps but they are less secure and can result in system compromise when poor passwords are used.
But now for the practical. As a designer, you files are large. Attempting to open a Photoshop document across the internet is a exercise in pain and heartache. You would need a really fast connection (> 50 Mb/sec synchronous) on both ends and you still will be susceptible to loss of data and problems. (Recall that most LANs today are 1000Base (1000Mb/sec., and those that are not are 100). I would instead recommend doing a remote control of your work machine with ARD or Screen Share (VNC) or looking at Aqua Connect (http://www.aquaconnect.net/?page_id=26). The idea here is that your work machine remains running and you make a secure connection over VPN. Then you remote control your work machine and it is doing all the opening, saving, and communication with shared resources. All your home machine is doing is getting the screen updates.
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Your best choice would be to use Back to My Mac with your iCloud Account. For more informatio please see the following topics.
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http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4907
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Why can't you just use Terminal.app? I use it for secure shell access and to tunnel numerous (otherwise unencrypted) services (smtp, imap, afp, and vnc) through it. It's in the /Applications/Utilities folder. Pretty much full Unix BSD command line.
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I have the Ports 5900 and 3283 fowarding to work computer A and at home I have the Ports forwarded to my laptop. No we have a static ip at work which comes from the the modem into the Dlink Di-524 router. No I we do not use a NAT. At work the flow goes from the modem to the router to a switch to the work Computer A. At home it goes from the modem to the router to a switch to the laptop.
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Hello folks,
I know this might be pretty basic to many of you, but I'm still a bit unsure of myself and my knowledge of Mac networking or remote access. I'm wanting to setup my Mac at work so that I can connect to it from my Mac at home. I use a Cable modem at both work and home, and it is active 24/7.
What I'm looking for (or hoping for) is a link to a good manual or outline on how I can achieve this. If anyone has one, please let me know. Or if it's much simplier than that even, please feel free to give me some pointers here as well.
Thanks in advance, these forums have always been a tremendous source of help. It's nice to be a part of a community that actually works together like the Mac community. Thanks again.
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Wow, thanks Darren, I had no clue it was quite that . . . simple. I'll have to give this a go tonight.
Regarding my setup Patman, it's like this...at the office, we have PC's and Macs setup to share a cable modem for internet access. We have a Cable Modem which hooks directly into a Linksys Cable Router...that router hooks into an Asante Hub...all the PC's are linked directly into this hub...one line runs to my office where my Macs are setup...here I have a DLink Ethernet Switch that all 3 of my Macs (as well as 1 printer) hook into.
This might not be the optimal way to do things, but it's how we are setup atm. Does this give you the information you need Patman? Let me know if there's anything more I can tell you. Thanks.
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and what kind of lag is involved?

Yes as per the last poster connect via VPN and add your machine.
Works pretty well and if on good connections then not much lag at all. On busy networks and slower internet connections it can get a bit slow.
Depending on your setup there are other easy programs as well such as logmein free or similar that require no VPN or settings or playing with firewalls.
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We're running mail service (IMAP) on OS X Server 10.3.9 at the office. Everything works fine when I'm on the network locally - I can send and receive external emails etc.
However, I can't access the server from home using either the domain name or IP address. I used to be able to but we've recently changed ISP & router and I'm not sure if this has affected it. I assume the MX records for the domain are fine since we can send and receive.
I'm not really an IT admin-type guy (it's just kinda become my responsibility) so I don't fully understand DNS, local domains etc.
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Everything works fine when I'm on the network locally - I can send and receive external emails etc.
However, I can't access the server from home using either the domain name or IP address. I used to be able to but we've recently changed ISP & router and I'm not sure if this has affected it.
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When you are inside the local network (LAN), your computers probably find the server using a local IP address. When you are outside the LAN, then your computer will find it EITHER by using the public IP address of your firewall OR using a name which will resolve to the same.
Since it worked before you changed ISPs, I'm guessing that you had it set explicitly to the WAN IP address. This will have changed with the change of ISP.
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NEXT, since your router has also changed (and I presume this is also your firewall) then you need to ensure that the imap port required (143) is open and port-forwarding to the internal IP address of the mail server.
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I'm sorry, I'm sure I should be able to find the answer to this but so far I can't. I have a G5 Imac at work. I also have one at home. (same model computer) and a G4 powerbook and the new macbook (with the intel processor). Here's my problem. I want to be able to leave my work computer turned on when I go home and access files that are on it from home, or remotely from the macbook wherever I am. Problem is, I have no idea how to set it up to be able to do that. Do I need special software?
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