Hamachi is simply amazing. With the latest betas, which I presume are close to to final version now, you can even use remote desktop just using the VPN it creates, with no port forwarding whatsoever. Also, there’s a Mac OS X beta available right now, which can be found in the official forums.

Steve Gibson (from grc.com) has recently talked about Hamachi. You can find what he has to say here http://thisweekintech.com/sn18

I installed it last week and am using it to play warcraft III over (virtual) LAN instead of on Battle.net.

Its great, it worked the first time and there are no unecessary bells and whistless to screw arround with. Its way quicker and easier than setting up some VPN connection.

I am using Hamachi for some time now to play LAN games with my friends over the internet. One of them has a fiberglass internetconnection and has installed a FTP server on the HAMACHI IP, so it is only visible to our “network” on hamachi. Works very simple, even not so nerdy friends are using it. Great tool.

I used it, and it works as advertised. One thing I like about it is it simulates an additional Network adapter, with the original one working as it did before, so existing connections, IM, browsing continue to work just as they did before…

It rocks. I was having problems running an office VPN - all sorts of port/firewall issues and so on. Then I installed Hamachi and now it all runs like a dream - and took about 2 minutes to set up.

It would be nice if you could run it as the computer (as opposed to as a user, so it didn’t require a user to be logged in), but I understand that’s coming in a future version.

Hamachi’s great. I ran across it before the 1.0 (maybe 5 months ago, now?) and some friends use it regularly to play LAN games over the web. Love it. Not web 2.0, but I love it.

Hamichi is very good and the only thing that is up in the air at the moment is to run it as a service. The ‘premium’ version will let you do this and the ‘basic’ version does not. There are many programs to run a program as a service though. The main reason this part is an issue is if the remote machine you are connecting to the user is not logged on then you can access the service. This page http://hamachi.cc/compare shows the differences between the ‘basic’ and ‘premium’ versions; it shows the extra features such as no-password secure connections for trusted network partners and many other advanced features. Hamachi is also planning to offer the entire service as a stand alone product for corporations to use; this then eliminates any security concerns that you may have with storing network passwords on the Hamachi systems.

Ah! Wonderfully Impressive!

We use it quite a bit for playing Dungeon Siege 2. It worked fine for the most part. We did run into some issues where we had multiple people behind one firewall and it got a little confused.

As Steve Gibson from the podcast Security Now! says, “Hamachi Rocks!”

I can now access PCs that I support for family members without any complex setup. Hamachi is easy to configure too.

It is simply incredible. Been using it for a few weeks, after Gibson hyped it up in one of his Secure Now podcasts (ep 18 I think). Very simple to setup, very easy to use. Great performance too!

Get the beta 1.0 version instead of the .9.9.9. Among other things, 1.0 allows you to RDC without having to jump through hoops like you would with the .9.

i use it. i love it. works as promised and advertised. i was skeptical when i came across the service on the net but am glad i did.

alex

We’ve been using Hamachi for http://www.supergeekblog.com and transfering files between our many computers(some over 100 miles apart) and it works wonderfully.

The gaming community picked up on Hamachi some time ago. There’s lots of gaming traffic going over Hamachi VPNs as we speak.

One thing I immediately noticed was that you cannot connect two computers behind firewalls unless one of them has port forwarding set up. For home computers, I guess that’s fine (unless you want to connect more than one computer), but I can’t (and wouldn’t) set up port forwarding on my work network with over a thousand users.

To comment on the above post by Dave Child, it is possible to setup Hamachi to run as a local service so you do not need to be logged on your Hamachi Client machine to connect to it. This also solves the issue with Remote Desktop failing whenever you try to connect to a Windows XP machine and have to log off the currently logged in user to login as the remote user therefore killing the client. There is a full article which explains in detail how to set this up which can be found here http://www.cyberonica.com/cms/.....=3&z=1

Hamachi is amazing. It is the VPN for the masses. I have personally used it to connect to my work machine (securely) from home, and vice-versa.

Steve Gibson (the security guy) gave it his thumbs up on his podcast in December (see http://www.grc.com/SecurityNow.htm )

While Hamachi is freakin rad…I’m concerned with the stability of it. Both computers I’ve set it up on along with a friends computer that are all running SP2 have experianced network adapter problems since installing. The other solution that Gibson found, iPig seems to be a better option for me.

Hamachi is amazing. I have been using for over 6 months now to network my computers across the world, and it lets just do the most amazing things. Not had trouble even once since I set it up. Just works like a charm.
I cannot remember another network driver level software that was so easy to setup and use and that has been so stable, and reliable. Ever. And, these are on old dumb machines where i install and uninstall lots of other apps very frequently.

I set Hamachi up with Real VNC and had it running in about 2 minutes to do remote admin at my job from home. Blew my boss’s mind! Love it. Amazing product.

Hamachi is great!!! I’ve been using it since mid summer with great results!! As a system admin it’s great to be able to securely connect to any of my shares to retrieve files, apps, whatever from work or consultant gigs!!

Small app to boot!!

Hamachi is great… I handle over 50 vpn’s and just started using hamachi after hearing about it on Security Now, and I’ve got to say, it is really slick…

Security Now! is one of my favorite podcasts. Listen if you are at all into computer security. It’s a very well done podcast. Of course, if you use your computer anywhere in public or even on a hotel’s wired access it will scare the hell out of you unless you use a VPN or othter means of securing your access.

Might want to check out IPig (http://www.iopus.com/ipig/) as well.

Great software. Set up is easy. The only thing you have to worry about is firwalls. Also VNC works through Hamachi. This allows you to remotely control your system.

im getting an error while playing Dungeon Siege 2, when i try to start a local with an friend were getting an error that contains: the name is already in use whatever you try

with hamachi ofcourse

I use it to synchronize files between machines - works great. Can map drives, and file timestamps are preserved just like they would be on a real LAN.

Sounds great, but my work PC connects through a proxy and Hamachi will not connect 8-(

I hear a lot about the 1.0 beta, but where can I get a copy to test it?

Betas are available from
http://forums.hamachi.cc/viewforum.php?f=14

and the Mac betas from
http://forums.hamachi.cc/viewforum.php?f=16
and
http://files.hamachi.cc/osx/

The 1.0 beta has support for two major things:
1) Premium trial (key: TRIAL) which works for 2 hours and allows access to the developed premium features
2) Low-bandwidth relays which traverse almost all routers that don’t work with the traditional method (Prefs->System->Connectivity). Relays are very slow, but sufficient for some types of activity (e.g. low resolution RDP, simple games, accessing a webserver). Both ends must have this option set.
The beta is really a step up, and I can’t wait for the 1.0 final.

I LOVE the tool… but it freaked me out just a bit. How do I know I can trust that the authors don’t have back doors, and are looking at all my files at 3am?

I hate that REAL evil has scared me into not trusting REAL NICE.

I have set up Himachi on my WinXP (home edition) home computer and a laptop but whenever I try to browse the shared files of the other ‘user’ in my network it says that the path does not exist. Are there some settings in windows that I need to change to get this to work?

Hey, I’ve got Himachi set up on my computer with the Real VNC remote desktop, it was really easy to do.

BUT how do you transfer files to/from each system rather than just being able to control it?

The problems I have faced when installed Hamachi is that 1) it does not work behind proxy servers and 2) if I reinstall Windows XP and Hamachi, Hamachi gives my machine another ID and IP and I lost the old ones.

–
Luciano Evaristo Guerche
Taboao da Serra, SP, Brazil

Another thing I did not like is that Hamachi does not run as a service with free accounts, you must upgrade to the premium account. LogMeIn (remote desktop) and Foldershare (file sharing) do not have such restrictions.

So, if hamachi run behind proxies and run as a service with free accounts, that would be the best world for me.

I absolutely love this program. I am super cheap but I was more than willing to pay for this program. I am thinking can I invest in this company? So far it is super fast, reliable and it has given new life to old games with LAN over the internet. Every person who I introduced this program to thinks this program is rad. I think there should be more advertisement about this program, because it would make lot of people’s lives easier.

J.

i’m trying to connect 2 or 3 computers from the SAME network (ISP) through hamachi and i have a big problem. We can’t see between ouselves. We have an orange dot in Hamachi. But we’re seeing ok another person from another ISP.. for example from another town. If that person (the outsider) is making a game server, we can all connect to it, but we can’t start a game.. only 1 player with the server. It’s normal ? Do you know this problem ?

Thought it’s worth noting Hamachi is moving up in the world! they just got bought by Logmein. It’s staying free which i’m sure many people are gonna be happy about

Hamachi is great! Very simple and easy to use!

hmmm.. I’ve had great success with filesharing with Hamachi,.. but I haven’t gotten VNC working yet still working at it though. This is absolutely amazing stuff!

Our machines are on the same network (ISP) all behind the same NAT,.. normally they are not allowed to see each other. Hamachi makes us visible. I can’t wait to get home to my Linux machine and install the client! YEAH !