>You could try two methods: open...hosts in Filemaker and Timbuktu/PC
>anwyhere
>
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>Timbuktu
>I think this is mac only, but there should be a PC equivalent - PC anywhere
>maybe. This is probably a little slower than open...hosts but you get to
>have everything - it basically puts your office desktop on you home desktop.
>Disadvantage: costs money.
Timbuktu works on either platform - or indeed both. I often control a
remote Windows machine from my office Mac. This is quicker than using
FileMaker's file sharing across the net, since you are passing only
keyboard commands and the video raster back and forth, not the
database. One important difference - using remote control software in
effect places you at the keyboard of the host. If you print a
document, it comes out of the printer at the host site, not the
remote site, for example.
>
>++++
>
>Things to take care of, in both cases:
>1. If the host machine does not have a fixed IP address it needs to be
>reconfigured to have one. You need a machine in your office with a fixed IP
>address that is not internally resolved - i.e. an IP address that the rest
>of the world can see. If you have a router and several machines it's likely
>the router has one IP address and routes info to the other machines, which
>the rest of the world never sees.
>
>If you have one machine, and it's on a DSL, I believe the IP address is
>fixed.
>
>You can request your ISP to reconfigure your router so that it can do what
>you need it to do. If it's a netopia router they may be able to do it
>remotely.
>
>2. If you have a firewall, you need your IT people to open up a hole in the
>firewall.
>
>Colin
>
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>Colin Keefe
>Filemaker Consultant
>718 782 5470
>[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
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>
>
>
>on 1/4/01 7:11 PM, Ileen Weber at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
>> Another basic question -- I want to be able to work on ebase from my home
>> laptop. I have the software loaded on my home machine and at the office.
>>
>> What do I need (or what do we need on the machine at the office) to enable
>> me to access ebase via the web from my home laptop? Or more specifically
>> -- how does this work? Does the machine at the office have to be running?
>> Do we have to have our ebase file on a web site? Our web page is primitive
>> and we don't have anyone expert at being a webmaster.
>>
>> If someone could give me a basic explanation of how this works, I would
>> appreciate it. I haven't a clue how this works.
>>
>> Ileen Weber
>> Membership Chair
>> Pilchuck Audubon Society
>> Everett, WA
>>
>>
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