Remote Login – features and requirements
Remote login is one of the most popular applications of desktop sharing. As we talked about it earlier, as computers and the internet have become an indispensable tool for doing business, more and more workers are logging-in from different locations to communicate with each others. They are not confined to colleagues in the same location anymore. The following shows an excellent example of how Remote Login actually helps in our day to day work.
Let’s say you’re preparing a huge PowerPoint presentation for a big meeting on Friday. All of the PowerPoint files and PDFs and images that you want to use in your presentation are saved on the hard drive of your work computer. Thursday rolls around and you wake up with a nasty stomach virus. You don’t feel well enough to go to the office, but you need to finish that presentation. Here’s where remote login can help.
Not long ago, the only way to remotely access work files from home is through virtual private networks (VPN). Remote login was still not widely used at that time. But VPN access isn’t the same as accessing the hard drive of your work computer. The limitation of VPN is that it only enables you to access to the local area network (LAN) at your office. In other words, you’re only able to access your PowerPoint presentation files if you’ve saved them on the network at your office via VPN even though the file is in a different computer. As long as the computer is connected to your office LAN, accessing to the PowerPoint presentation files is doable.
Remote login, however, uses simple desktop sharing software to give you a “remote control” for accessing your computer — and all of its software and hard drive files — from any Internet-connected device anywhere in the world!
Remote login works exactly the same way as desktop sharing. There are two separate parties in remote login: the host computer and the remote user. With remote log-in, your home or work computer is the host and you (in this case) are the remote user.
Remote login requires three basic components:
1. Software download
2. Internet connection
3. Secure desktop sharing network
For remote login to work, both the host computer and all remote users have to download and install the same desktop sharing software. Besides, remote login will only work if the host computer is powered on, connected to the Internet and running the desktop sharing software.
Each time you open and run the desktop sharing software on the host computer, the software starts a new session. Each session has a particular ID and/or password that are required to remotely log in to the host computer. Once the session has been established, most desktop sharing software quietly runs in the background of the host computer until a remote login request is made.
To log in to the host computer from home (or while traveling), you’ll need to run your version of the same desktop sharing software and enter in the correct session ID or password. Or some services allow you to log in through a Web site. Once you’re logged in, both computers will communicate with each other over a secure desktop sharing network. Access to this network can be free or subscription-based, depending on the service. While connected, you’ll have access to keyboard controls, mouse controls, all software and all files on the host machine.
For security purposes, all packets of information that are sent over the network are typically encrypted on each end with secure shell (SSH) or 128-bit advanced encryption standard (AES) encoding. For added security, no session IDs or passwords are stored on desktop sharing servers; they’re automatically generated by the host machine.
One of the most powerful and secure remote login software is RADMIN. Control your Home or Office PC from Anywhere with RADMIN. Try it Free!. RADMIN is a fast and secure Remote Login Software that enables you to work on a remote computer in real time as if you were using its own keyboard and mouse.
With Radmin You Can
• Remotely Operate your Home or Office computer
• Provide Helpdesk functions for Remote Users
• Easily Manage your Home or Office Network
• Work from Home
The above features are only on the tip of the iceberg for RADMIN. For a detail and comprehensive features, please go to the following link.
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