"It's the nightmarish flip side of the on-the-road productivity we discussed last week: You've grabbed your laptop and headed out to a client's office, ready to dazzle him or her with a presentation. After some small talk, you flip open your machine, fire up Microsoft PowerPoint, and discover...you can't find the file. It's securely sitting on your home office PC-15 miles away."
"Alternatively, let's say you're a telecommuter who works two or three days a week at home and, on one of your home office days, you find you need a document from your cubicle PC at work. No matter how you find yourself in this type of predicament, you're in trouble-unless you have an assistant back at your office who can send you the file you need."
"Fortunately, since this is the age of high-tech magic, you can. Actually, you could have done it back in the low-tech days of DOS. What you need is remote access, a way to control and fetch files from what's called a host PC (which you left switched on back at the office) using what's called a client or local PC (which is what you have with you)."
Traveling professionals and telecommuters can be unable to access critical files when those files remain on a distant PC, a flash drive left behind, or folders not synchronized with cloud storage. Such situations are common when a home-office PC holds needed documents while the user is away. An assistant at the office can send files, but remote solutions provide direct retrieval. Network Attached Storage (NAS) devices in a home office can act as a private cloud and allow file access from anywhere with an Internet connection. Remote access software lets users control and fetch files from a host PC by sending keyboard and mouse input to that host.
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