Are any of you using remote access to your home or work computer?

I'd like to access my office PC while I'm out of town.

Issues:

Cox using dynamic IP addressing

I have 5 PC's behind a Barricade Router

Recommendations?

Thanks!

...Jim Thompson
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I love to cook with wine. Sometimes I even put it in the food.

"Jim Thompson" wrote
in message ...
Are any of you using remote access to your home or work computer?

I'd like to access my office PC while I'm out of town.

Issues:

Cox using dynamic IP addressing

I have 5 PC's behind a Barricade Router

Recommendations?

Thanks!


Logmein, www.logmein.com

It should work with your router. And there's a free version, less some
advanced control you might not need.
It's the best of the bunch.

Cheers

"Jim Thompson" wrote in message
...
Are any of you using remote access to your home or work computer?

I'd like to access my office PC while I'm out of town.

Issues:

Cox using dynamic IP addressing

I have 5 PC's behind a Barricade Router

Recommendations?

Thanks!

...Jim Thompson

Use a service like http://www.dyndns.com/ to get around
the dyn IP issue.
If you're running XP then this site should help you set up
a VPN.
http://www.publicvpn.com/support/WindowsXP.php
Art

On 5/30/2011 9:55 PM, Jim Thompson wrote:
Are any of you using remote access to your home or work computer?

I'd like to access my office PC while I'm out of town.

Issues:

Cox using dynamic IP addressing

I have 5 PC's behind a Barricade Router

Recommendations?

Thanks!

...Jim Thompson

DDNS will let you get by the IP address, the Router's firewall can be
configured to allow the (one) PC you want to access to be able to
receive the ports.

I've done this in the past (I do have fixed IP, but DDNS does solve that
issue) and it worked.

--
I'm never going to grow up.

Martin Riddle wrote:

Logmein, www.logmein.com

It should work with your router. And there's a free version, less
some advanced control you might not need.
It's the best of the bunch.

I use Logmein Hamachi to access home from my netbook. It's installed in a
folder on my encrypted drive (Truecrypt) to keep anyone who might find or
steal the netbook from accessing my home. Yet I can't seem to find exactly
where it keeps it's hashed key for the VPN. I wish the thing prompted for a
password before opening the connection.


--

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zero, and remove the last word.

On Tue, 31 May 2011 07:52:25 -0400, "Tom Del Rosso"
wrote:

Martin Riddle wrote:

Logmein, www.logmein.com

It should work with your router. And there's a free version, less
some advanced control you might not need.
It's the best of the bunch.

I use Logmein Hamachi to access home from my netbook. It's installed in a
folder on my encrypted drive (Truecrypt) to keep anyone who might find or
steal the netbook from accessing my home. Yet I can't seem to find exactly
where it keeps it's hashed key for the VPN. I wish the thing prompted for a
password before opening the connection.

What are the differences between LogMeIn Hamachi and LogMeIn Free?

...Jim Thompson
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On Mon, 30 May 2011 18:55:17 -0700, Jim Thompson wrote:

Are any of you using remote access to your home or work computer?

I'd like to access my office PC while I'm out of town.

Issues:

Cox using dynamic IP addressing

I have 5 PC's behind a Barricade Router

Recommendations?

Thanks!

...Jim Thompson

Have a look at openvpn. I use it exactly for what you want other than
I have a static IP. But I'm pretty sure openvpn can handle dynamic ip. I
have several clients that use it for employee/consultant access.

Joe Chisolm

Jim Thompson Inscribed thus:

Are any of you using remote access to your home or work computer?

I'd like to access my office PC while I'm out of town.

Issues:

Cox using dynamic IP addressing

I have 5 PC's behind a Barricade Router

Recommendations?

Thanks!

...Jim Thompson

Try "no-ip.com" !

--
Best Regards:
Baron.

Jim Thompson wrote:
Are any of you using remote access to your home or work computer?

I'd like to access my office PC while I'm out of town.

Issues:

Cox using dynamic IP addressing

I have 5 PC's behind a Barricade Router

Recommendations?

Thanks!

...Jim Thompson

Get your own domain name, and register it with DynDNS. Your router
should have a dynamic DNS client in it, or you can use ddclient or
whatever the Windows equivalent is. Now you have a public Internet
presence.

Then use port forwarding (another router setting) to connect whatever
remote access software you use to the outside world. Since my stuff is
mostly Linux, I just use X tunnelled via ssh, i.e. from a Windows client
I use Putty for command line and X applications, and Expandrive for
secure drive sharing. (It's nicer from a Linux client, but that's
because I'm a command line sort of guy.)

I forward ssh from each machine on my network to a different port on the
WAN side, so I can just go

ssh -Y -p xxxxx mydomain.com

and get to any machine I want by using the right value of xxxxx.
(None of them is forwarded to port 22.)

You can also use a free DynDNS account, but they give you a cheesy
domain name. For $20 a year or whatever it is, I'd rather have a more
congenial name.

Cheers

Phil Hobbs






--
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Principal
ElectroOptical Innovations
55 Orchard Rd
Briarcliff Manor NY 10510
845-480-2058

email: hobbs (atsign) electrooptical (period) net
http://electrooptical.net

Jim Thompson wrote:

What are the differences between LogMeIn Hamachi and LogMeIn Free?

Just one big difference. Hamachi is a VPN, so you can do all network
functions, and the 'free' is only remote control.


--

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zero, and remove the last word.

"Phil Hobbs" wrote in message
m...
You can also use a free DynDNS account, but they give you a cheesy domain
name. For $20 a year or whatever it is, I'd rather have a more congenial
name.

I dunno... no one's going to know, right? And he could have
"jimthompson.is-a-geek.com" or "jimthompson.kicks-ass.net" 100% for free!

Tom Del Rosso wrote:
Jim Thompson wrote:

What are the differences between LogMeIn Hamachi and LogMeIn Free?

Just one big difference. Hamachi is a VPN, so you can do all network
functions, and the 'free' is only remote control.

Therefore, my complaint about Hamachi doesn't apply to the 'free'.


--

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zero, and remove the last word.

On Tue, 31 May 2011 11:53:00 -0700, "Joel Koltner"
wrote:

"Phil Hobbs" wrote in message
om...
You can also use a free DynDNS account, but they give you a cheesy domain
name. For $20 a year or whatever it is, I'd rather have a more congenial
name.

I dunno... no one's going to know, right? And he could have
"jimthompson.is-a-geek.com" or "jimthompson.kicks-ass.net" 100% for free!

Sno-o-o-o-ort!

I'll have to ponder that.

(In a fit of pique I DID register liberalsaredummies.com the other day
:-)

...Jim Thompson
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In article ,
Joe Chisolm wrote:

Are any of you using remote access to your home or work computer?

I'd like to access my office PC while I'm out of town.

Issues:

Cox using dynamic IP addressing

I have 5 PC's behind a Barricade Router

Recommendations?

Have a look at openvpn. I use it exactly for what you want other than
I have a static IP. But I'm pretty sure openvpn can handle dynamic ip. I
have several clients that use it for employee/consultant access.

Agreed - OpenVPN with suitable security certs can work very well
indeed.

Since your home system is assigned a dynamic IP address, you may want
to use a service such as dyndns.org - this will let you refer to your
home-network gateway/router via a domain name which you can "re-point"
rapidly if your ISP forces your router over to a different dynamic IP
address.

--
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Friends of Jade Warrior home page: http://www.radagast.org/jade-warrior
I do _not_ wish to receive unsolicited commercial email, and I will
boycott any company which has the gall to send me such ads!

"Jim Thompson" wrote
in message ...
On Tue, 31 May 2011 07:52:25 -0400, "Tom Del Rosso"
wrote:

Martin Riddle wrote:

Logmein, www.logmein.com

It should work with your router. And there's a free version, less
some advanced control you might not need.
It's the best of the bunch.

I use Logmein Hamachi to access home from my netbook. It's installed
in a
folder on my encrypted drive (Truecrypt) to keep anyone who might find
or
steal the netbook from accessing my home. Yet I can't seem to find
exactly
where it keeps it's hashed key for the VPN. I wish the thing prompted
for a
password before opening the connection.

What are the differences between LogMeIn Hamachi and LogMeIn Free?

...Jim Thompson

Hamachi has a VPN. It depends upon what you need to do. Do you need
access to files and such or just remote control?
The 'Free' is remote conntrol. There is a 'Pro' version that will allow
transfering files. And then Hamachi, which I found over kill.
We use the Pro version for serviceing clients. It'll connect as long as
the customer has internet access, eliminating router issues.

For the office I have OpenVPN setup, and tightVNC. But it requires a
good knowledge of networking to get working.

Cheers

On Tue, 31 May 2011 18:45:38 -0400, "Martin Riddle"
wrote:



"Jim Thompson" wrote
in message ...
On Tue, 31 May 2011 07:52:25 -0400, "Tom Del Rosso"
wrote:

Martin Riddle wrote:

Logmein, www.logmein.com

It should work with your router. And there's a free version, less
some advanced control you might not need.
It's the best of the bunch.

I use Logmein Hamachi to access home from my netbook. It's installed
in a
folder on my encrypted drive (Truecrypt) to keep anyone who might find
or
steal the netbook from accessing my home. Yet I can't seem to find
exactly
where it keeps it's hashed key for the VPN. I wish the thing prompted
for a
password before opening the connection.

What are the differences between LogMeIn Hamachi and LogMeIn Free?

...Jim Thompson

Hamachi has a VPN. It depends upon what you need to do. Do you need
access to files and such or just remote control?
The 'Free' is remote conntrol. There is a 'Pro' version that will allow
transfering files. And then Hamachi, which I found over kill.
We use the Pro version for serviceing clients. It'll connect as long as
the customer has internet access, eliminating router issues.

For the office I have OpenVPN setup, and tightVNC. But it requires a
good knowledge of networking to get working.

Cheers



I know from nothing about networks. Mainly what I want to do is read
and reply to E-mail; though I might want to run PSpice at some point
in time.

...Jim Thompson
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"Jim Thompson" wrote in
message ...
I know from nothing about networks. Mainly what I want to do is read
and reply to E-mail; though I might want to run PSpice at some point
in time.

I've occasionally wished that there were a Usenet (NNTP) reader that would
automatically synchronize across multiple computers. AFAIK, though, no such
program exists, unfortunately.

---Joel

On Tue, 31 May 2011 17:07:21 -0700, "Joel Koltner"
wrote:

"Jim Thompson" wrote in
message ...
I know from nothing about networks. Mainly what I want to do is read
and reply to E-mail; though I might want to run PSpice at some point
in time.

I've occasionally wished that there were a Usenet (NNTP) reader that would
automatically synchronize across multiple computers. AFAIK, though, no such
program exists, unfortunately.

---Joel

Indeed!

...Jim Thompson
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| Phoenix, Arizona 85048 Skype: Contacts Only | |
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Jim Thompson wrote:

On Tue, 31 May 2011 17:07:21 -0700, "Joel Koltner"
wrote:


"Jim Thompson" wrote in
message ...

I know from nothing about networks. Mainly what I want to do is read
and reply to E-mail; though I might want to run PSpice at some point
in time.

I've occasionally wished that there were a Usenet (NNTP) reader that would
automatically synchronize across multiple computers. AFAIK, though, no such
program exists, unfortunately.

---Joel


Indeed!

...Jim Thompson

Assuming I understand the question !!!!!!!

Yup, can be done., Just a server installed on the main machine that will
respond to the NNTP port and redirect in/out to local and remote
machines from a list of IP addresses.

No modes needed in any client software. Just a server operating on the
machine that has the actual connect to the NNTP..

Jamie

On Tue, 31 May 2011 19:45:27 -0700, Les Cargill
wrote:

Jamie wrote:
Jim Thompson wrote:

On Tue, 31 May 2011 17:07:21 -0700, "Joel Koltner"
wrote:


"Jim Thompson"
wrote in message ...

I know from nothing about networks. Mainly what I want to do is read
and reply to E-mail; though I might want to run PSpice at some point
in time.

I've occasionally wished that there were a Usenet (NNTP) reader that
would automatically synchronize across multiple computers. AFAIK,
though, no such program exists, unfortunately.

---Joel


Indeed!

...Jim Thompson

Assuming I understand the question !!!!!!!

Yup, can be done., Just a server installed on the main machine that will
respond to the NNTP port and redirect in/out to local and remote
machines from a list of IP addresses.

No modes needed in any client software. Just a server operating on the
machine that has the actual connect to the NNTP..

Jamie




I think there is more to it than that

Might be able to Ggogle for "NNTP proxy". It will not preserve the
state metadata from multiple newsreaders on multiple machines, though.

I suspect one could move the Agent database to your laptop when you
travel, then move it back when you come home.

...Jim Thompson
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"Jamie" t wrote in message
...
Yup, can be done., Just a server installed on the main machine that will
respond to the NNTP port and redirect in/out to local and remote machines
from a list of IP addresses.

The idea is that you run Free Agent or Outlook Distress or whatever on, e.g.,
your home machine as well as your, say, travel laptop, and when you start each
reader it checks (with a central server somewhere) to synchronize its list of
read articles (or not).

On Tue, 31 May 2011 17:45:47 -0700, "Joel Koltner"
wrote:

"Jamie" t wrote in message
...
Yup, can be done., Just a server installed on the main machine that will
respond to the NNTP port and redirect in/out to local and remote machines
from a list of IP addresses.

The idea is that you run Free Agent or Outlook Distress or whatever on, e.g.,
your home machine as well as your, say, travel laptop, and when you start each
reader it checks (with a central server somewhere) to synchronize its list of
read articles (or not).

Thus my questions about remote access. Everything (mail and Usenet)
stays on the home machine, you just remote control it while traveling
;-)

...Jim Thompson
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Jim Thompson wrote:

On Tue, 31 May 2011 19:45:27 -0700, Les Cargill
wrote:


Jamie wrote:

Jim Thompson wrote:


On Tue, 31 May 2011 17:07:21 -0700, "Joel Koltner"
wrote:



"Jim Thompson"
wrote in message ...


I know from nothing about networks. Mainly what I want to do is read
and reply to E-mail; though I might want to run PSpice at some point
in time.

I've occasionally wished that there were a Usenet (NNTP) reader that
would automatically synchronize across multiple computers. AFAIK,
though, no such program exists, unfortunately.

---Joel


Indeed!

...Jim Thompson

Assuming I understand the question !!!!!!!

Yup, can be done., Just a server installed on the main machine that will
respond to the NNTP port and redirect in/out to local and remote
machines from a list of IP addresses.

No modes needed in any client software. Just a server operating on the
machine that has the actual connect to the NNTP..

Jamie




I think there is more to it than that

Might be able to Ggogle for "NNTP proxy". It will not preserve the
state metadata from multiple newsreaders on multiple machines, though.


I suspect one could move the Agent database to your laptop when you
travel, then move it back when you come home.

...Jim Thompson
Well ok, if that is going to be an issue, a simple remote access
terminal application to that main computer works fine for that.. Not
only can you operate your NNTP client remotely, you'd be able to do the
same with other apps as well, remotely! We do that here from home when
we want to get to and operate the PC at work how ever, we are not using
standard off the shelve software for this, even though it isn't anything
special, just something the IT department uses from the days of evil
computing.

Linux works well for this because all the items needed are there and
free, ofcourse.


Jamie

"Jamie" t wrote in message
...
Linux works well for this because all the items needed are there and
free, ofcourse.

There's plenty of comparable free apps for PCs as well... just as there's
plenty of good Linux software for these sorts of applications that's
potentially worth paying for (e.g., NoMachine NX... while I use the free
version, if I somehow happened to be running a company with lots of Linux
boxes around, I'd pony up for the payware version... and there seem to be a
lot of "security" companies selling commercial version of SSH, even though
OpenSSH seems to be just peachy... but apparently there are some nice
additional bells and whistles that appeal to larger companies in the
commercial versions...)

---Joel

Try Teamviewer.

It is easy to use, free for personal use, and requires no router setup
at all. Works with XP, Vista and Win7.

A lot of my customers use it, and they like it a lot.

Current version is 6 I believe.

- Tim -





In article , To-Email-Use-
says...
Are any of you using remote access to your home or work computer?

I'd like to access my office PC while I'm out of town.

Issues:

Cox using dynamic IP addressing

I have 5 PC's behind a Barricade Router

Recommendations?

Thanks!

...Jim Thompson

On 5/31/2011 9:02 PM, Tim wrote:
Try Teamviewer.

It is easy to use, free for personal use, and requires no router setup
at all. Works with XP, Vista and Win7.

A lot of my customers use it, and they like it a lot.

Current version is 6 I believe.

- Tim -


Over $700 for the cheap version.

Jamie wrote:
Jim Thompson wrote:

On Tue, 31 May 2011 17:07:21 -0700, "Joel Koltner"
wrote:


"Jim Thompson"
wrote in message ...

I know from nothing about networks. Mainly what I want to do is read
and reply to E-mail; though I might want to run PSpice at some point
in time.

I've occasionally wished that there were a Usenet (NNTP) reader that
would automatically synchronize across multiple computers. AFAIK,
though, no such program exists, unfortunately.

---Joel


Indeed!

...Jim Thompson

Assuming I understand the question !!!!!!!

Yup, can be done., Just a server installed on the main machine that will
respond to the NNTP port and redirect in/out to local and remote
machines from a list of IP addresses.

No modes needed in any client software. Just a server operating on the
machine that has the actual connect to the NNTP..

Jamie




I think there is more to it than that

Might be able to Ggogle for "NNTP proxy". It will not preserve the
state metadata from multiple newsreaders on multiple machines, though.

--
Les Cargill

Jim Thompson wrote:
On Tue, 31 May 2011 19:45:27 -0700, Les Cargill
wrote:

Jamie wrote:
Jim Thompson wrote:

On Tue, 31 May 2011 17:07:21 -0700, "Joel Koltner"
wrote:


"Jim
wrote in message ...

I know from nothing about networks. Mainly what I want to do is read
and reply to E-mail; though I might want to run PSpice at some point
in time.

I've occasionally wished that there were a Usenet (NNTP) reader that
would automatically synchronize across multiple computers. AFAIK,
though, no such program exists, unfortunately.

---Joel


Indeed!

...Jim Thompson

Assuming I understand the question !!!!!!!

Yup, can be done., Just a server installed on the main machine that will
respond to the NNTP port and redirect in/out to local and remote
machines from a list of IP addresses.

No modes needed in any client software. Just a server operating on the
machine that has the actual connect to the NNTP..

Jamie




I think there is more to it than that

Might be able to Ggogle for "NNTP proxy". It will not preserve the
state metadata from multiple newsreaders on multiple machines, though.

I suspect one could move the Agent database to your laptop when you
travel, then move it back when you come home.

...Jim Thompson


That well could be. It is true for the read I use ( Mozilla ) - er,
at least restoring the appropriate profile files takes you back to the
state they were saved at, anyway.

--
Les Cargill

Jim Thompson wrote:

I suspect one could move the Agent database to your laptop when you
travel, then move it back when you come home.



Run your NNTP software from a USB thumb or external hard drive. I
know that 'Xnews' from 'Lucid Software' will run from an external
drive. I use it to combine and decode the binaries on this newsgroup.
I just plug it into whatever computer I'm using and log in to Giganews.


--
It's easy to think outside the box, when you have a cutting torch.

Jim Thompson wrote:

Thus my questions about remote access. Everything (mail and Usenet)
stays on the home machine, you just remote control it while traveling

If you don't need other network functions, just use Logmein Free.

(Both require software installed at the server (home) end, which also means
you don't have to change any router settings.)


--

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"Michael A. Terrell" wrote in message
m...
Run your NNTP software from a USB thumb or external hard drive.

Ah, good idea. Thanks, Michael, I'll try that...

Tim wrote:

Try Teamviewer.

It is easy to use, free for personal use, and requires no router setup
at all. Works with XP, Vista and Win7.

A lot of my customers use it, and they like it a lot.

Current version is 6 I believe.

I agree. Teamviewer is a very good solution for computers behind a
router. They use the server as a middle man to connect two outgoing
network connections. It works a bit like peer-to-peer file exchange.

--
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indicates you are not using the right tools...
nico@nctdevpuntnl (punt=.)
--------------------------------------------------------------

On 31/05/2011 11:55 AM, Jim Thompson wrote:
Are any of you using remote access to your home or work computer?

I'd like to access my office PC while I'm out of town.

Issues:

Cox using dynamic IP addressing

I have 5 PC's behind a Barricade Router

Recommendations?

Thanks!

...Jim Thompson

Yes - Don't.

A security nightmare just waiting for a hacker.

Jim Thompson wrote:
Are any of you using remote access to your home or work computer?

I'd like to access my office PC while I'm out of town.

Issues:

Cox using dynamic IP addressing

I have 5 PC's behind a Barricade Router

Recommendations?

Thanks!

...Jim Thompson
Run tightvncserver on each machine.
Use different port numbers.
Set your router to forward the ports to the correct machines.
Go to dyndns.org and sign up for the equivalent of a fixed ip address.
Tunnel thru SSH if you're paranoid.
Don't run vncserver when you're not gonna be needing it.

As with any means of putting your machine out on the web,
if there's anything...ANYTHING...that you wouldn't want
to show up on the front page of your local newspaper,
ENCRYPT IT. Treat it like everything on your system is shared
to everyone...because it is.

VNC is cross platform. VNC viewer runs on just about anything with
a processor. Sometimes handy to be able to run it from a PDA.
If you enable the HTTP servers, you can access it from a web browser.
Does file transfer.
I wish it did sound.

Dyndns finds your IP address. Apart from that, there's no server
to go through for anything. I like that a lot.

Check it from outside your network before you leave town.
For example...with the default setting of the zonealarm firewall,
it pops up and asks you to confirm access, but won't let you click
"allow" remotely.

There are a bunch of other issues.
If I'm watching a movie and someone vnc's into my machine, the movie
blanks.
There are control key issues. VNC viewer intercepts some control keys
for its own use. Those don't get seen by the remote application.
There are cumbersome workarounds for some key combinations.
Stuff like editing a circuit board layout may be difficult.

If there's a lot of stuff going on on the screen, VNC has to send
all those changes. You upload speed matters. VNC has a special
display driver that can help with this problem.

On 06/02/11 09:56, mike wrote:
Run tightvncserver on each machine.

VNC used to be considered to have a pretty weak password encryption
algorithm.

Tunnel thru SSH if you're paranoid.

This is the right answer. Once you have an SSH server, you can
use it to tunnel almost anything else pretty securely. Unless
you're on Windows, but only a madman would put a Windows machine
directly on a public network, no matter what software you use.
If you want to access Windows boxes, put a secure SSH server in
front of them. Some routers will do the trick.

Clifford Heath (who did this for a while for a living... for a
bank... for the public to move $$$ around)

On 2011-06-02, Clifford Heath wrote:
On 06/02/11 09:56, mike wrote:
Run tightvncserver on each machine.

VNC used to be considered to have a pretty weak password encryption
algorithm.

still is, there is no protection against password replay attacks.

We use VNC for a couple of things at work, but don't rely on VNC
passwords for anything.

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On 2011-06-02, Clifford Heath wrote:
On 06/02/11 09:56, mike wrote:
Run tightvncserver on each machine.

VNC used to be considered to have a pretty weak password encryption
algorithm.

still is, there is no protection against password replay attacks.

We use VNC for a couple of things at work, but don't rely on VNC
passwords for anything.

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š‚šƒ 100% natural

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