Hey everyone, Daniel here from TwinBytes with another quick tech-torial for you.
This time with TeamViewer.
TeamViewer allows you to remote control
into any computer. So if you're wanting to remote into your office computer from
home, if you're gonna be working from the office for any particular reason such as
that of my other recent video; or maybe you want to connect into your home
computer from the office; or your home computer from while you're on vacation;
or you're helping out a friend or family member remotely with one of their needs.
This program will allow you to do that as though you are sitting right in front
of the computer. I'm going to show you how you can set up and use this
program from start to finish from both computers, so stick around...
Alright so starting with the computer that we want to remote-control into.
So this might be your office computer. You're gonna go to TeamViewer.com
At the top we've got a download button, which is very convenient. From here
you want to make sure you select the correct operating system that this
computer is, and it may detect it automatically, but if not make sure you
click on the appropriate one that you're using. For me it's Windows. So it's showing
TeamViewer for Windows. I want to download the tool. Depending on the
browser you're using, it'll ask you to save or run.
Now this program you need to know
has a free version for personal use, which is personal to personal.
So home to home.
If you're using it, or even from your office into your home computer.
But if you're using it for business purposes, for example your remoting into your
office computer from the house, you need to ideally purchase a corporate license.
But you're allowed to try this out first and see how it works for you. So we need
to select two sets of information here. First is the default installation, which
is good in most cases, and we've got the custom installation to allow ...
unattended access support. This is what we actually want on our office computers,
because if we have to restart the computer, we're going to want to make
sure the program is going to continue to run, so we can get back in there without
someone requiring to be sitting at that computer and clicking to allow us access,
which is what the default installation would do. We want to do this unattended
because no one's going to be there to allow us to get in.
If you are being asked to get the program so that someone can help you,
and they just need you to run this once, then you can choose this option here to just
run it that one time. Then remove the program afterwards. So it doesn't
actually install it it's just running it during that one session. We're gonna
choose unattended access.
Then you need to choose what type of license you're using.
So again, commercial use they're gonna want you to
purchase the license after the trial. Personal use is free, and if it's a
little bit of both you can choose that and then see what they can do for you as
far as Licensing goes when the time comes. For now we're gonna say just
personal use just to get through this, otherwise if you go to setup commercial
use they're gonna want to gather some information from you, just so that they
can get you properly licensed after. For the purpose of this video, I'm not going
to go through entering the information because that's just standard stuff you
would go through afterwards, and we're gonna continue with this.
So the installation is fairly short and quick depending on the speed of your computer.
I've got a pretty fast computer with a solid-state drive. So yours might take a
little bit longer than this, but this is without speeding up the video
and it's done this quick.
Now once it's installed, it asks you to set up your unattended access.
So we're going to hit next, and it's got the name of the computer.
We're gonna want to put in a password here
and then we can hit next, and then here is going to be where the licensing comes in.
If you need a free account you can set one up.
If you already have an account then you can choose this option and simply sign in.
But if it's for personal use, you don't really need an account. So you can
say you don't want to create an account. Even if it's for business you don't need
to really set that up right away. I believe you can skip that for now.
You will eventually need an account, if it's for a business.
Then it gives you your ID which is what you would be connecting to
from the remote computer.
but we don't need to worry about writing that down quite yet because it is over
here on this screen. So when we hit close here we're gonna still have access to
that number. More importantly the password as well to connect into it.
So with this here, we now have unattended access to remote into this computer.
Basically this computer can be controlled if anyone has this ID and password,
and it's checked on to start TeamViewer with Windows. So when you
reboot the computer it will automatically launch itself again,
and allow access here. So anybody that wants to try remoting into this computer
remotely, don't bother because it's all going to be reset and deactivated before
this video is even posted. So we're going to take a snapshot and write down the
information here, because we're going to be needing this ID and password to
connect to from the remote computer.
Now we're on the remote computer.
So what we're going to need to do is from here, go to TeamViewer.com again,
and download the software. Choosing the appropriate operating system.
Download and install this.
So when we get to the point of choosing these options,
on the remote computer we were choosing unattended access.
We're not wanting to remote into this computer.
We want to remote from it.
So we can either say run once if we're only doing this one time
but realistically what you probably want is the default installation.
So it will have it installed on your computer.
So you could use it for remoting in To or From.
It goes both ways.
But it won't be unattended. So no one can connect into your computer,
or this computer, without the program running.
Then of course choose your appropriate license,
the same as before and hit accept.
It goes through again,
the quick install.
now we've got this computer set up with another ID and password. What we want
to do is, we've got the information from the other computer written down here.
So we want to plug in that partner ID or your remote ID into this window here.
You have the option of remotely controlling this computer or just doing
a file transfer. We're gonna remote control into it.
and I should note for the purpose of this connection,
you don't need to worry about what your ID and
password are. That's if somebody was to connect to you, you would give them this
ID and password. But we're connecting into this other computer that we set up
initially. So we're going to hit connect.
Now it prompts us for the password.
So we've got to put in what this password is right here.
Then we can log-in.
Now we've just logged into that computer.
It shows down here, that the TeamViewer program is running. There's a session
current, from this computer here, and this ID, which is what we're coming from.
So if I look at this here, that's my ID, and that's what it's saying down here so
they know that we are connected to that computer from this ID. So we can now
control this computer and do all kinds of different things. The most important
thing is just running any programs that you want to run. But you can see you've
got the start button and you would have access to your web browser and
everything that you would have as though you were sitting right in front of that
computer. There's nothing any different. If you want to close out of here, you
just hit the X in the top right corner and close out of that. There are other
options up here, including to close the session straight from here, and you can
go through these options and see what else you are capable of doing, such as
telling the computer to reboot or sending the control delete option.
Really if you want to reboot the computer, you've got full access to the
Start menu, where you can then hit the power button and restart the computer,
just like you would as though you were sitting in front of it.
The person that's remotely being controlled,
if they wanted to kill the session they could close that.
And it says there "close all connections". So they could kill the
session on you if they ever wanted to, but if you're connecting into
your own computer nobody should be there to do that. Now another quick tip for you
is because you want to keep your computer locked at the office, so no one
else uses it when you're not there; a quick thing is to lock the screen.
So to lock the screen from here, you would go up to Actions, and Lock and then Lock Now.
You can also say lock on session end, so when the session ends it will lock.
I like to hit lock now, and we can see the computer is now locked. So we can go
ahead and close that session.
That's it! It reminds you here that it was a free session.
and that you are able to use it for personal use, free, and they're
asking of course that.. you know... play fair. If it is for business you want to
purchase a license, and if you want to try and trick the system, they do have
algorithms in place that will detect if you're using this for business use or not.
So if you're using it for an extended period of time,
they may ask you to purchase the license.
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