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What is the best way to remotely access my PC from my laptop?

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I have old MacBook and when it’s time to upgrade I didn’t want another “stupid” Mac or a laptop so I thought to get a PC. Now when I got to college I sometimes regret it with MacBook limitations and applications I can run. So I thought about to access my PC on my MacBook. Who has tried this? Any advice?

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  • What is your motivation to access the PC from a MacBook?

    Remoting across your own network (i.e. home) is not difficult. Remoting over heterogeneous networks adds complexity and security risks especially if you are going it alone.

    I opened port 22 on my home firewall to enable SSH access from the Internet. In a 24-hour period, I had 100K scans of the IP and 50K logfile of failed attempts at logins.

    If the goal is to consolidate files so they are accessible from one place. Think of using a file service. They do the heavy lifting, you gain the benefits. Choose a service that protects your data. I'm in Canada. I store data on Canadian servers to prevent the long arm of the US law from accessing.

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  • What is your motivation to access the PC from a MacBook?

    Remoting across your own network (i.e. home) is not difficult. Remoting over heterogeneous networks adds complexity and security risks especially if you are going it alone.

    I opened port 22 on my home firewall to enable SSH access from the Internet. In a 24-hour period, I had 100K scans of the IP and 50K logfile of failed attempts at logins.

    If the goal is to consolidate files so they are accessible from one place. Think of using a file service. They do the heavy lifting, you gain the benefits. Choose a service that protects your data. I'm in Canada. I store data on Canadian servers to prevent the long arm of the US law from accessing.

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  • in reply to colporteur

    Agree with that, heterogeneous is definitely non-trivial, and a lot of firms only recently (well, past decade or so) started to make use of it, due to a few factors, and individuals are pretty much exposed if they don't consider it carefully.  

    Regarding SSH, I can think of an alternate semi-solution that is sometimes helpful. The technique is Reverse Port Tunneling, also sometimes called Remote Proxy Tunneling, it's described here: 

    https://gist.github.com/markjlorenz/6206454?permalink_comment_id=2954806

    Although not overly complicated, it's still more effort, and requires a server in the middle (e.g. in cloud) to make it happen, and gains a bit of benefit since no inbound ports need to be kept open.