This simple workshop will show you how you can access your PC at home or office from anywhere in the world via an Android phone or tablet, iPhone or iPad.
There may have been several
occasions when you were at
home, on holiday or travelling and
urgently needed to access your office
PC for some important documents. Or
you may have kept some files to be
downloaded on your home PC and now
you need to shut down the PC from a
remote area (office or outstation). What
do you do? How do you gain access to
your PC? You have the option of asking
a colleague or family member to help
you out, but what if you have some
confidential data on your PC and would
not want to compromise on privacy? Well,
there is a way to gain access to your PC
via the Internet using the Remote Desktop
Protocol or RDP. But this involves setting
up a live IP address, which is visible all
around the world. You can possibly do
this for home, but what about your office
PC, which is behind a firewall or a proxy
server? You would not be able to gain
access as easily. In this workshop, we
shall show you how simple it is to gain
access to your PC at home or office from
your Android smartphone or tablet as
well as the iPhone or the iPad. All you
need is an internet-enabled device with
a free-to-use app called TeamViewer.
Configuring TeamViewer is a child’s play
and you can get working on it in a matter
of minutes. At the same time, the utility
is very safe and secure. Once you have
your setup working, you can also connect
to your desktop PC from any Internet
cybercafé using the Web login.
TeamViewer is an all-in-one solution
for remote access over the Internet. It is
free for personal use and is compatible
with desktop operating systems such
as Windows, Mac, Linux and also with
mobile operating systems such as Android
and iOS. Download TeamViewer for your
desktop PC from www.teamviewer.com.
We recommend the portable version
which can be run from a USB drive or
a CD. The app for the smartphone and
tablets can be downloaded from their
respective online app stores.
Once downloaded, you'll have to
configure it at both ends once, but before
you do this, you might need to register
with TeamViewer for a free user account.
You can do so by signing up at https://
login.teamviewer.com/ and creating a
free account.
The Desktop PC Configuration
Start TeamViewer, agree with termsand conditions and proceed with the
installation as you would usually do
with any other software. Once the
installation is done, start TeamViewer
and it will sync with its online servers
and allocate a unique ID and password
for your computer. Note down these
details and keep them safe. Every time
you restart the application, you will
receive a new password, while the ID
will remain static for your PC. This ID
and password is a one-time security
pass to give the invitation for a remote
login to your PC. You can use this ID and
password to connect to your desktop PC
from a remote location. But if you restart
your PC very often, it will be difficult to
keep track of the changing passwords.
For this reason, you need to setup an
unattended access to TeamViewer. Click
on ‘Connection’ and then on ‘Setup
unattended access’. This will bring up
a wizard wherein details such as the
PC name and password needs to be
specified. Give the desktop PC a name
and password of your choice. The next
screen will then ask you to enter the
details that you registered online. If you
did not do it earlier, you can create one
now too. After entering the details, your
system will now be available to you
online with the same password every
time. Your desktop PC is now available for
remote access. You can now choose to
lock the desktop or turn off the monitor.
The Client Side
After installing TeamViewer on yourhandheld, start the app. You will be
welcomed by an initial introduction
screen, which can be skipped by pressing
the back button. The next screen will be
ready on the ‘Connection’ tab, where you
can type in the details of the ID and the
password of the computer you would like
to connect to. Simply skip this and click
on the ‘Partner list’ tab. Here you can log
in using your username and password
you created on the TeamViewer website.
Once you do this, you will see a button
called ‘My Partners’. Click on this button
and you will now see the desktop PC
available online. Click on the PC name
and you can gain access to your desktop
PC. And you’re done! Simple, isn’t it?
Once in it, you can investigate the number
of features TeamViewer has to offer. You
can change resolutions, switch monitors,
tweak the performance by optimizing for
quality or speed, remove wallpapers for
better speeds, disable remote cursor, use
the keyboard, use the mouse right-clicks,
enable function buttons, and the list goes
on. Wel l, enjoy your remote access.
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