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Bill

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Thanks very much for all of the replies.

To clarify a bit, by "access" what I am trying to accomplish is
mostly being able to grab files. What we are doing now, is to go to
the office (next town over), copie a few excel files onto a thumb
drive, bring them home, do some updating/bookeeping, save them back to
the thumbdrive, and then copy the updated excel file back onto the
original computer next time we are at the other office. If I can
remotely copy some excel files from computer "B" to computer "A"(at
home), add stuff to said file, then put it back on "B" from home, it
will make things much easier. No real need at this time to do the any
"remote desktop" sort of thing. These are all individual computers, no
servers or networks at either end. If it ever progresses much beyond
this level of complexity I would likely get someone more expert
involved anyhow. All 3 computers are WinXP.

I'll look into some of the alternatives you guys have suggested.
Thanks again for taking the time to reply!

AL A.

I'm a bit late to the party but I'd recommend a product called 'Remote
Admin' they have a website at 'www.radmin.com'. It's 49 bucks per
license, you need one per remote machine and you can get a free viewer
program for as many pc's as you need to view the remote machines on. The
latest version has built in file transfer. A couple of caveats, make
sure you have either a permanent IP address or have some way of
determining it on each remote PC or you wont be able to connect to it
over the web. The other is that if the PCs access the net through a
firewall or router make sure you pass the listening port used by any
remote software to the remote machine or nothing will work.

Bill