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#8982 11-Aug-2006 07:33
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Thought this was very interesting, particularly since I just posted about Logmein a few days ago here! According to press releases on both their official websites, Hamachi, as well as parent company Applied Networking, have been purchased by Logmein. I think this is an interesting turn of events that could lead to some interesting developments, both sofware-wise and financially for the companies. They've both got huge userbases that, while similar, are not identical. And fortunately they said on the Hamachi website that it's going to remain free. What do you think?

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#43731 11-Aug-2006 09:03
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Yes, saw these news on Gigaom's blog. Interesting. I use GoToMyPC at home (I have a Corporate License), and use LogMeIn IT Reach on my server, and it's really nice.

I thought of using Hamachi, but since it's not clear if firewall changes are needed and I rather not install anything on a server, that I have to remove later.

Otherwise, interesting news. I heard good things on Hamachi.






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#44470 22-Aug-2006 10:01
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Something is going on there now. I just tried visiting their site to check and possibly download, but the frontpage comes blank. I wonder if this will be moved to www.logmein.com soon?





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  #44471 22-Aug-2006 11:26
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I take it the LogMeIn on their site is different from Hamachi?






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  #44472 22-Aug-2006 11:38
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freitasm: I thought of using Hamachi, but since it's not clear if firewall changes are needed and I rather not install anything on a server, that I have to remove later.


Hamachi works as a pseudo network adapter that you can enable and disable just like any other Windows NIC - and apply firewalling policies to likewise. Traffic gets tunnelled over UDP and is encrypted.

The free version works pretty well, but the pay variant adds potentially useful stuff like HTTP proxying. Interestingly enough, they've got short term licenses as well, like one month only.




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#44473 22-Aug-2006 11:41
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Yes, LogMeIn is a different product...





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#44481 22-Aug-2006 12:53
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Arghhh. Sorry - I was using .com. The URL is actually http://www.hamachi.cc/.





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#44485 22-Aug-2006 14:07
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Cool. This is installed in four machines now, including the main Geekzone server - I bought a license so it can be run as a Service on that box. It works perfectly well - no more FTPing files over unsecure connections now.






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  #44486 22-Aug-2006 14:10
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freitasm: Cool. This is installed in four machines now, including the main Geekzone server - I bought a license so it can be run as a Service on that box. It works perfectly well - no more FTPing files over unsecure connections now.


Can we use it to store images and other stuff for the blogs now?




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  #44503 22-Aug-2006 17:44
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Yes, Hamachi is very cool. Only concern is the closed source nature of it and the lack of peer review of its security.

I use it myself for sharing photos etc with my father (using iPhoto sharing).  The iTunes music sharing works perfectly as well, as the computers think they are on the same LAN segment. Can stream music from my father's iTunes Library and vice versa. Very nice.

It would be really nice to have streamlined version built into the OS (Vista or Leopard?)

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