I have recently purchased a portable hard drive as I am now working from home.
I can log into my company server from home having setup a 'connect to my workplace' network connection using Remote Desktop.
I was wondering whether, as from time to time I may be at a friends house and whish to check my emails whether it is possible to setup a network connection to my work server and remote desktop log in on my portable drive therefore avoiding having to set it up on every pc I might use.
Thanks
Daniel
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For the Remote Desktop part by creating an RDP file you should be fine, but for the network connection creation (VPN?), you might still have to do/undo it manually. I'm pretty sure a tool could be done, but it is unlikely as this might requires admin rights, something that cannot be truly portable.
would thunderbird be any good for this. you may need to talk to your works comp tec to get the pop3 server settings for it to set it up. but if you work from home alot i think they may let you do it.
worth thinking about.
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Thay are probably using Exchange or IMAP in an enterprise. POP3 is kinda old you know
Exchange supports webmail and iNotes can be accessed remotely. Both require signons with passwords. No need for special sw or apps.
Ed
What do you mean POP3 is old? Everyone is still using it. Examples: Google, Yahoo, AIM, ICQ, Charter, Clearwire, and MSN all still use POP3.
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They just added IMAP and hosted their server with Gmail. I do like the increased mailbox, though (100MB to 7,248MB).
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did you know that pop3 is still quite widly used and also thunderbird can use Imap too.
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I have mentioned to the IT department at work and they do not seem to A: think it is possible and B: don't like the idea, incase I were to loose my drive, the person who found it could gain access to the system.
But thanks for the replies anyway.
Dan
Whatever you did, you'd make it so that you still had to type in your password.
i think there is a password APP here to password protect your harddrive. Just cant remember where i saw it
Sorry
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MickeyJ4J
Looks to me your IT department has to take a closer look at U3 smart drive.
This in combination with an application like PortableVPN makes a good combination for the things you ask.
Like most scenarios, U3 smart drives don't gain you anything in this scenario.
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properly, simple connection to it from outside should not be possible.
Here at work, we also have exchange, to access it from outside, only VPN connection can be build up and then the exchange accounts accessed. The accounts are never on the local PC anyway, all is on scratch path server as copy and deleted from there any time I log off at my PC.
The VPN access has to be set up by the network admin, only few people get it, it is a security matter.
On the other hand, slightly less administered networks of our customers, we are accessing desktops of other people from our network via the software TeamViewer.
For private purposes, this can obtained in portable version from their site, for commercial application, well it is then getting kind of expensive.
Otto Sykora
Basel, Switzerland