The brievity and format of your message made it look rather suspiciously like spam. Then when I checked out Logmein and found what looked like a product requiring payment for any worthwhile functionality, I thought “spam” for sure.
I apologise for jumping to the wrong conclusion.

Based on what you have explained, I must agree—it does have some very useful features. I was jumped to the wrong conclussion when as soon as I went to add a 2nd computer it presented me with a page saying I must either buy the pro version or trial it. I assumed that the pro version must be required for having more than one system loaded on an account. I gather that is not correct. Yes?

In terms of Linux…
Have you managed to install the application on Linux? When I tried to access it from my Linux box I could only see the option to download a windows setup.exe file, as opposed to a Linux package. Let me know if you found a Linux package. Perhaps I didn’t look hard enough.

With thanks,
Jonathan

I’m sorry you took such offense to my message. I wasn’t trying to do anything other than reccomend a method that’s worked for me in the past.

I think you’re a bit confused as to the different versions of the logmein product; when you sign up you get something like a 30 day trial to Pro which yes is a pay product. When that expires you have two options: start paying for the pro version or continue using the free version, which, as stated in its name, is a free program. The latter has a few features (remote printing, file transfer) disabled but its still a very handy program that I use to great effect.

You make a very good point in regards to having the system on a local network. That is kind of dumb to do; i’ll admit. But as a backup program that’s web based (and hence available wherever you go), it’s damn useful. I cant tell you how many times I’ve gone to a colleague’s office, realized I forgot to bring a file or email it to him or something, and i’ll just access my home system through his web browser and bam! done. For this reason I am a huge fan of web-based remote access programs, whether its logmein or not. LMI is the only consistently free one I’ve found however.

As for it not working on your linux box I honestly have no idea whats up with that. I may have gotten confused and its probably opposite of what I said (linx->windows but not vice versa). I’m new to linux so i’m still learning things

All I wanted to do was give some helpful tips as to a program I’ve had success with. I really did not mean to offend you or give you the impression I was spamming you.

Logmein does not appear to be free. As soon as I add more than one computer it goes into a trial mode for the Pro (paid) version. Nor does it give me access to my linux box.

Thanks but no thanks.