Re: Secure Remote access?

["Scott C. Best" <sbest () best com>]

Chad:

        Heya. At the risk of being self-promotional, might I suggest
you give Kaboodle a try? It combines VNC with Zebedee to create what
I call a "personal VPN" capability. It's designed for the "average"
Internet user (ie, someone who knows what their email address is, but
not what their IP address is), and your relatives might count. It's
also free and open-source.

        Just this weekend, we released version 0.99d which when
combined with a KaboodleProxy server, allows Kaboodle users to VNC
and file-transfer across a firewall/router without either side
having to do any port-forwarding adjustments. That is, with one
person running the KaboodleProxy server (eg, you) for a community
of users (eg, your relatives), none of the end-users need to worry
about port-forwarding or dynamic-DNS or the like.

        I hope it proves useful:        http://www.Kaboodle.org

cheers,
Scott

On Mon, 8 Nov 2004, Chad Thomsen wrote:

> I have relatives with older computers who constantly get viruses and need
> help who live in other states.? I would like to set up some sort of VNC so I
> can log into there computers and help them out.? The problem with VNC is
> that it is not secure.? Yes I know I could set up a SSL system but I have to
> keep this very simple as my relatives are NOT computer literate.? No, I
> cannot use Windows XP with remote assistance because these are Win98
> machines.? Yes they should upgrade, but what is the point if all they are
> doing is checking their email and surfing the web on occasion? ?The machine
> I would use to get into my relatives machine would be Windows XP (preferred
> due to knowledge) or RH Linux (still learning).
> ?
> Does anybody have a simple solution to this that is free or very cheap??
> Sorry to sound like a cheap skate but a lot of my relatives are retired and
> are on fixed income.
>
> Thanks,
> Chad Thomsen, MCSE, CCNA
> Network Administrator
> Brame Specialty
> ?
> ?