Greets,

In the next few weeks I will be getting hold of an old AMD 400 box, with 256Mb RAM which I am hoping to use as an FTP server that I can leave up 24/7.

As the machine doesn't come with a monitor, and I can't afford to get another one yet, I was hoping to network that and my existing machine together using 10/100 NIC and some cross over cable.

My question is this: Using the above network setup, can I use PCanywhere (or something similar) to control the FTP server (just general maintenance) from my other machine (peer-to-peer), or do I need to set them up as a client-server?

And also, can setup my other machine to share the net connection on the FTP server? both machines will have Windows 2000 pro on them.

Sorry if this sounds a bit muddled, I'm just trying to figure out in my head how to do it. Any suggestions/comments/improvements appreciated.

Thanks for reading.

As far as using a program to control the other PC I don't think there should be a problem....

You would just have to have the monitor hooked up to the client to set it up obviously....

Or you might try ...

Radmin.

http://www.famatech.com/ ... and a trip to astalavista should do the trick.

MrClean
Practice makes marginally better.

I agree with Rez WinVNC is a good little utility too.

The problem with most remote control apps, are you need the firewalls to let you get a direct connection.

So for me to get round this at work to control my home server, I use www.remotelyanywhere.com is allows HTTP tunneling, might be slower, but it works.....