Setting up remote access to my home computer (which is on Verizon FIOS)

epwileyto · 2021-03-15T14:12:55+00:00

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Is there any documentation about setting up your home network for remote access to one computer from the outside? We are non-commercial.

Last spring, my son finished his college semester at home, and then was stuck here for most of the summer. He spent his time learning to use a 3d imaging program called Dragonfly. We set up my old work computer, which has some good graphics capabilities, and operated it from the living room. RDP interferes with the graphics processor, so we used Teamviewer.

Now my son is back up at school, and would like to keep practicing with Dragonfly on our home computer. I talked with the Verizon folks, and the helped me set up port forwarding on the router. Now what do I do? I have been working from home for a year now, and I don't have any way to test remote access to the computer. (Or do I?) I use RDP to connect to my computer at the university. Can I set Teamviewer up on that machine, and test access over RDP? I really would like to hand my son a complete recipe on how to reach our home workstation from his college location, and I'd like to test it first.

Thanks

Paul

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Esther

No worries: no routing, no port forwarding needed.

That´s the beauty with TeamViewer: It is simply - let me explain:

To start with: You need a TeamViewer on both computers installed.

Whether both computers are in the same room or on two different continents: You connect with the same method via the TeamViewer ID and the password (or Easy Access).

Or did you connect via the IP address when your son was at home?

Esther

The connections will go through our routers- yes 👍🏻

Best wishes to your son and I hope he enjoys the sessions

Esther

No reinstall needed, but if you set the connections to exclusively LAN you need to change it to Allow so that you can see a TeamViewer ID on the app.

you can do this in the TeamViewer settings

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Esther

No worries: no routing, no port forwarding needed.

That´s the beauty with TeamViewer: It is simply - let me explain:

To start with: You need a TeamViewer on both computers installed.

Whether both computers are in the same room or on two different continents: You connect with the same method via the TeamViewer ID and the password (or Easy Access).

Or did you connect via the IP address when your son was at home?

Esther

The connections will go through our routers- yes 👍🏻

Best wishes to your son and I hope he enjoys the sessions

Esther

No reinstall needed, but if you set the connections to exclusively LAN you need to change it to Allow so that you can see a TeamViewer ID on the app.

you can do this in the TeamViewer settings

epwileyto

Thanks Esther. I am not sure that gives me what I need. I am new at this. I've been using RDP for years, connecting to University computers that have fixed ip addresses. When we were using Teamviewer from the living room to the workstation on the other side of the house, it was easy... we were both on the same side of the Verizon firewall. If my son is trying to reach that same computer from the outside, I have no idea how to attempt to reach it, what ip address he should use. I'm sure there are some bits of info I need from Teamviewer, some from Verizon, and I am not sure I get the complete story from either one.

Thanks again.

Paul

epwileyto

Esther- One more thing... When we were using Teamviewer here, from one side of the house to the other, we did not route anything through the teamviewer mothership. Is that something we need to do if my son is trying to reach our home computer from school? The golden security list seemed to talking only about that.

Thanks

epwileyto

Esther- Thanks. The answer you gave sounds simple. As I indicated before, when we used teamviewer before, from one side of the house to the other, it was all internal. No electrons went to the Teamviewer site (or left our house for that matter). Verify that this will be a setup that involves the Teamviewer site.... the connection is mediated by Teamviewer Central. Correct?

We want to make sure we don't run afoul of any of your rules for non-commercial use. This is just our son trying to reach a piece of software on our home computer so he can learn to use it. Learning to use it may get him a job in the future, but at the moment, he's just watching their videos and going through the exercises. The software needs lots of RAM and a graphics processor to run properly, so it won't work on his laptop.

Thanks

Paul

epwileyto

Esther- thanks for all your help. One last thing. Since we were set up to use direct connections with ip addresses before, do we need to do any reinstallation to go through your routers?

I'll probably want to test the answer and be able to connect my laptop through your routers, so I can give Matt the recipe.

Thanks

Paul

Esther

HI there,

you only need to install TeamViewer on the remote computer and make the setup for your son to connect: For this, I am sharing the Four Golden Security rules with you: https://community.teamviewer.com/English/kb/articles/108694-four-golden-security-settings

Your son needs to know the TeamViewer ID and the password or get Easy Access for his TeamViewer account. That´s basically it 👍

Thanks and best,

Esther