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I have around 300 pc's at various sites (10-15) at each for example.

Few are running www.gotomypc.com but I would like to have them all so that I could remote into them at any time.

Few have static IP and most are behind various firewalls,routers. I have access to them all to modify the routers but without static Im at a loss.

Basically im looking for a very low cost solution like gotomypc only much cheaper???   vnc?

thanks

andy
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Quick addition to the above:

With regardes to access via routers and firewalls are we talking multiple domains? NT or AD? Are the domins trusting or in the same forest?  If all the systems are in the same domain or trust one another or have a common DNS structure you should be able to access all systems via the hostname (WINS) or DNS.  If this dosen't work then I might need a little more info on your WAN environment.

PS. Do you require access only via LAN/WAN or external?
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mostly xp, some domain some workgroup

just need to access individual machines from remote locations.

if i use windows remote desktp would i not need to install something on each machine?
Yep... www.tightvnc.com for the actual software
and www.dyndns.org for if you want to use this with Dynamic IPs.
DynDNS will allow you to configure the PC to automatically update DynDNS hostname/ipaddress every time the IP changes.

Then you can use VNC to just connect to  yourpcname.dyndns.org without having to worry about what the IP is.

Hope this helps
J
does help but i used dyndns.org once and wanted to cry, couldnt get my head round it

"if i use windows remote desktp would i not need to install something on each machine?"


You need configure the remote desktop on xp-s.

(Controll panel\ System\ Enable remote connections - if i remember right - and U can connect only with local admin accounts
what if they are sitting behind a firewall??
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Good Point syn_ack_fin....
but anyways...In terms of your firewall question:
If you can have port 3389 to be redirected to the PC behind the firewall that would allow RDP.

What problems did you experience with DynDNS? maybe i can help with that.

Otherwise... look at another provider of DynDNS like www.easydns.com
thanks guys, will have a look and get back to u