I have a new computer dilemma. A couple of months ago I did something I hadn’t done in years. I bought a new computer. I do this about once every six or seven years. I don’t want you think I use the same computer for more than five years. I don’t. In fact, I usually get a new computer every year, but it’s always a laptop. This time I got a desktop.
I still have a nice laptop that I tote to the office everything. Here’s the problem. I work at home in the evening (on the desktop). Then I take the laptop to the office. I have a 512MB USB drive that will hold everything I do in a evening, but I always end up at the office without that one file I really need.
So I’m looking for a secure way of getting back to my home computer (security is very important… must be encrypted) from outside the firewall. It also has to be easy to use.
I have a cable modem with an IP address that’s mapped to a domain name (using DYNDNS.ORG). Getting home is not the problem. Once I’m here, I have to get through the firewall which already has HTTP and HTTPS mapped to my web server and secure mail server, respectively.
FTP is no good (not encrypted). I’m looking at encrypted FTP, but I need something that is FREE. I found EFTP, but it wants to use some dynamic ports that my firewall doesn’t seem to want to automatically open.
I’m still playing around with it.