Is there an app that will allow an Android phone to access a windows network?
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Astro File Manager has an additional SMB module that you can download separately to use with AFM. I remember trying it way back when and it force closing on my old D1 but it may be working better now.
Samba wouldn't be that hard to set up either, I'm sure its already been done
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ES file explorer and file expert are both free and do not require an extra plugin to access network shares. I've used then both and prefer es file explorer.
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Thanks for the help. I think our guy wanted to actually log onto the server and control it like you can from a work station. I don't think that's possible.
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You can use an RDC client. I have Windows server 2008 r2 on a pc and I have remoted in to it with ny thunderbolt. You would have to figure out the networking issues related to this setup but it can be done.
Is he talking VPN and remoting in via the mobile network?
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I haven't tried a similar solution over WiFi but logmein ignition over the internet has saved me a few trips to an actual workstation. For me, well worth the price. Requires an agent on the controlled computer though.
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I have been using Xtralogic Remote Desktop Client to do this and it works well.
The main problem is that it doesn't play well with VPN connections. It will access machines remotely that have the RDP service advertised on the external side of the network but you can't make a generic VPN connection and access machines across the tunnel.
The solution can be done two ways. One is to set up RDP Gateway on one of your servers and externally publish that address and port. The other is to externally publish EVERY address and port of each machine you want to access from the outside.
The first is easier than the second, but it still leaves a potential security risk. I wish that Xtralogic would fix the VPN issue. Even though it's a good RDP client they still don't seem to have the enterprise user in mind given this major design flaw.
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I was wondering would it be possible to somehow get rosetta stone running on any of these dual core devices? wether it be a port or even an emulation of the basic services of windows needed to run the rosetta stone?
Probably the only way would be have it running on your computer and remote into you computer via critix, phonemypc, or the like
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that sucks...which program would you suggest? cause phonemypc isnt as smooth as i would like and it doesnt stream the audio also i tried using xtralogic but couldnt get it working i guess ill try out critix
1. use dynamic dns to have a dns name for your changing ip address at home.
2. configure your router for vpn and use dynamic dns
3. vpn to your home computer
4 use one of the free rdp apps on android.
Hi peoples. I am in seach of the best remote pc app. I have currently tried:
Phonemypc: Which is currently my favorite remote pc app. Navigation is easy and it has a mouse function where you can slide your finger and see the mouse move. Frame rate isnt that great but it has the function to tap into the PC/Laptops camera and view from your mobile device, you can also tap into the mic and listen.
Splashtop HD: I also tried splashtop hd which is very laggy even on fast wifi. The image is alot more crisp, but its just very dificult to use. They claim 30+ fps but I couldnt get it to work that smoothly.
what is everyone else using to control their pcs?
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I've used splashtop with very little lag on good WiFi, and even decently on 3G. What's the upload speed on the wifi you are using your PC in?
PhoneMyPC does the job for my needs.
PhonemyPC on my phone, Teamviewer on my tablet.
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I am recommending Teamviewer.
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http://www.teamviewer.com
Of course on market is version for ANDROID.
I personally connect via VPN and then use the "2X" app to RDP to other servers.... With an external mouse, this combination works perfectly - just like you are sitting in front of a windows box. I use this mainly for support (I'm a unix admin by trade). Now, I never even need to open my laptop for after-hours support! By the time my laptop boots, I could have already got in and fixed the issue from my Transformer!
Wyse pocketcloud is absolutely amazing. I've been using it on my phone and tab for a long time now and never wanted to switch. Also free
Best I have used is Splashtop. I've used VNC, RAdmin, RDP, and X forwarding on various platforms and distances over the years and Splashtop has been the least laggy for me. I've been using the client included with my TF.
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Spashtop is nice, but the problem is that you need to install a client on the remote PC.... RDP is nice becuase it's automatically available on all windows systems... If you are only connecting to one PC, I guess that's not a big deal, but for professional use, it's just too much of a pain (and security issue) to install a spashtop client on a bunch of PC's....
I use the Xtralogic RDP client. It's an amazing RDP app that does absolutely everything. I've tried dozens of different RDP apps and Xtralogic beats everything I've tried hands-down. It's a steep price on the market, but I found it for next-to-nothing on a third party app site.
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Spashtop is nice, but the problem is that you need to install a client on the remote PC.... RDP is nice becuase it's automatically available on all windows systems... If you are only connecting to one PC, I guess that's not a big deal, but for professional use, it's just too much of a pain (and security issue) to install a spashtop client on a bunch of PC's....
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One of many reasons I use SSH unless I have to interact with a GUI.
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One of many reasons I use SSH unless I have to interact with a GUI.
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Absolutely - I too use SSH for chararacter-based systems... But for Windows, the X2 app (which is free) is an excellent RDP app....
I use VMWare View. It requires you to have two windows server 2008 installations to do so(one as domain controller, and one in the domain).
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I use VMWare View. It requires you to have two windows server 2008 installations to do so(one as domain controller, and one in the domain).
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What are the advantages of VMWare VIew - I've head of it, but don't know much about it - does it only work with VMWare, I'm assuming?
Thanks.
I create an SSH tunnel then connect using Xtralogic.
2x and PocketCloud Remote Desktop using VPN
I´m using 2X or PocketCloud Remote, which are working both flawlessly to connect to my Win 7 Desktop (when FW is disabled, eventhough exception for TCP 3389 is konfigured), using WLAN.
I´d like to use the apps, when i´m home by VPN (like jtrosky) but in this case, traffic from PocketCloud isn´t even arriving at my ethernet port, whereas traffic from 2X does, but the connection doesn´t establish.
Tracing on the Ethernetport on my PC with Wireshark, i see a TCP SYN-packet comming in from my Transformer, followed by a TCP connection reset-packet (RST ACK) from my PC, where there sould be SYN ACK-Packet. So the TCP 3-way-handshake doesn´t work out.
FW and other security stuff is disabled. Access to my NAS is no problem, so VPN should be the root of evil.
Anybody any ideas?
pcap-dumps attached.
THANKS!
For what it's worth, I'm going to change my RDP-app recommendation from 2X to Jump Desktop... I didn't think you could get any better than 2X (it is a great app), but Jump Desktop is even better! I *love* the fact that I can basically RDP to my remote server without even connecting to my VPN at all! It allows you to connect via the internet - as long as you load a "helper" app on the PC(s) that you want to connect to.
Works GREAT - it is now my go to app for remote connectivity!
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Thank you for your "real-time"-reply
It allows you to connect via the internet - as long as you load a "helper" app on the PC(s) that you want to connect to.
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That means, that you open a port on your router / FW, like using DYNDNS, right?
I like the idea, VPNing home and connecting to my PC from inside my LAN, - just feels more secure.
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Thank you for your "real-time"-reply
That means, that you open a port on your router / FW, like using DYNDNS, right?
I like the idea, VPNing home and connecting to my PC from inside my LAN, - just feels more secure.
Greetings
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Actually, that's the nice part - with Jump Desktop, you don't need to worry about any of that stuff - you just log in to your Google account (from inside the PC helper app) and then everything is automatic! No need to mess with port forwarding, DynDNS or anything like that - it's all automatic...
They have a free version - give it a shot - I think you'll like it!
Of course, you can always still connect to your VPN and use Jump Desktop to connect "directly" to your PC if you want to go that route. But, the option to be able to connect without VPN is a nice-to-have in case VPN access is down or something like that....
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I'd love to use this app but feel like I'm in over my head trying to configure it. Can this be walked thru?
Firstly, do you have a hosted server (typically configured with sshd and nginx / squid), which is accessible from the Internet?
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Firstly, do you have a hosted server (typically configured with sshd and nginx / squid), which is accessible from the Internet?
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I DL'd the SSH Tunnel app (top 10 rooted app recommendation on a random site) and was hoping someone could help me with the necessary parameters to set it up. Is that possible? If promiseofcake's question is any indicator, I'll assume SSH isnt for me?
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I DL'd the SSH Tunnel app (top 10 rooted app recommendation on a random site) and was hoping someone could help me with the necessary parameters to set it up. Is that possible? If promiseofcake's question is any indicator, I'll assume SSH isnt for me?
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SSH is a protocol which allows one machine to securely connect to another remote machine, and in this situation, use the remote machine's internet connection. The benefit of this is that all of the data transferred to your phone appears to be originating from this remote machine of yours, and not all of the sites and services you are in turn using, Google, Facebook, torrent services, etc. Now if this server was hosted at home, your home internet would be the one which Google, Facebook, and torrent services would see using their services. Imagine that as a baseline.
In order for the above example to work, one will need a remote machine to use as a gateway for this traffic. Therefore, unless you have a computer setup and configured properly with a semblance of a "static" connection, there will be nothing for your phone to SSH tunnel into.
I would look into paid services so you don't have to deal with the hassle of setting something like this up.
Thank you very much for clearing that up!
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Yeah, I use SSHTunnel everyday, the benefit besides the fact that everything is appearing to come from the remote machine you're running SSH on is that everything is encrypted, so the carrier or wifi lan you're using can't see what you're doing either other then sending encrypted traffic to your remote machine, this can protect against droidsheep attacks and if you're using your providers 3g/4G and you tether the traffic is masked as encrypted and your provider can't really tell what you're doing, SSHTunnel IS a good program if you have an SSH shell to tunnel the traffic through.
I have problems with this app too. It connects successfully to my server but the "Individual Proxy" option does not work. I sent a mail to the author asking if iptables needs any specific options enabled (such as --uid-owner) for this to work but did not get any replies. I don't know how different the iptables on android is compared to that on desktop distributions.
I'm using CM9 and tested this the default kernel and Siyah kernel.
Hi peeps, have seen plenty of apps allowing remote desktop from androids phone to windows PC. Just curious to know if anyone has info of an app for phone that allows remote access of another android device eg, my transformer. Thanx in advance for any info.
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For example droid vnc server in your transformer and some vnc client in your phone?
Yes, the free VNC-Server on the market works well, but the VNC-Client I tried on my TF did not give me any opportunity to do swipe/drag gestures on the remotely controlled device which made it pretty hard to act in android. In addition, the phone I wanted to control ran Android 2.3, so the missing buttons were also a problem which made everything quite unusable. So I would say that you shouldn't expect to much of it.
i just found in development subforum droidmote an droidclient apps. Take a look at that thread
Splashtop works
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Cheers guys will take a look and see how I get on. Just out of interest how did you you use splashtop? Only gives info on PC and Mac in the read up.
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Splashtop clients are available for mobile and PC/Mac, but the server (streamer) is not available for Android.
I've used the free Android VNC server in the market on my old phone and a VNC client on my work station before....worked but not enough that I'd fancy using it with a Transformer if it can be avoided (most needs I have for that are done via SSH).
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SSH? Can you expand on that?. Sorry of it seems a silly question.
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There is an app called "Webkey" for android that basically allows you to remotely interact with your phone from a browser like through RDP or VNC. I think this is approximately what you're looking for. There is also an app called "Airdroid" that is similar in that you can control the phone/tablet from a browser, but its got its own UI rather than using the phones native UI.
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SSH? Can you expand on that?. Sorry of it seems a silly question.
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Secure SHell (SSH), can be used to get a secure data stream between hosts, usually used for running a shell, file transfering, or forwarding ports.
In essense it gives you a "Command prompt" on another machine.
It can also be combined with the X Windows system, where in you run the program on another machine but it appears on your system. The ability to do that with the transformer however is more convoluted than a typical Linux box (and Windows NT apps are not programmed to support the X Windows System used on unix, linux, and bsd).
File transfers and port forwarding stuff however work pretty typically on the TF.
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I'm trying to network my devices together as best I can for transferring files and also for backup purposes. I already have my router/firewall open to the web and sitting on a sub domain of my website (password protected of course). I'm using dyndns.com and my router has a DNS updater in it.
I had thought to do the same thing with my phone. Wasn't sure exactly how much control Could have remotely but if I could at least be able to ftp the decade that would be great. Anyways, it looks Luke AT&Ts proxy servers do not make that possible.
I suppose I could setup a VPN tunnel but I don't want to have to tunnel all of my traffic through my office connection 24/7 and at the same time I don't want to have to keep turning it on and off.
Any suggestions?
Use airdroid it's in the market
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Use airdroid it's in the market
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Thats for WiFi. I need to get past AT&T's proxy servers for the dynamic dns updater to work, or so I think.
Anyways, I was able to install VpnRoot and that works quite well for connecting to my vpn server. I imagine I might be able to tunnel to my office network, then use the dns updater but thats just too much work involved.