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This tutorial will show you how to manage your computers remotely while on the go with your Droid. This is helpful especially while on the go. You can now monitor your active torrents or grab an important file your forgot to sync while on the move and while at the office. Speaking of monitoring torrents from your device, a new lightweight option is to use this guide of monitoring and downloading torrents directly on the go. If you need help setting up a VPN on your home network, stay tuned to this site as a follow up article will be written soon.

On you Motorola Droid (Android 2.0 and 2.1)
1. Navigate to the menu and click “Settings”
2. Click “Wireless and Networks”
3. Click “VPN Settings” and click “Add VPN”
4. For this example we will be using a PPTP vpn. If you have another type of VPN set up at school, work or home, the directions will differ slightly.
5. After clicking “PPTP VPN”, give the VPN a name, this can be anything
6. In the box that says “set VPN server”, this is where you are going to inset a dns name or an ip. If you are unsure what the name is, contact your work or school to see if their is some kind of document. If this is a home VPN, you can get a DNS name through dynamic DNS.

http://www.dyndns.com/

7. For this example, I will use “MytestVPNname.selfip.com”
8. If encryption is enabled on the VPN, be sure to check the next box
9. Make sure you have cell service (3G not required but recomended) and click connect. The droid should bring up a notification stating that you are successfully connected.

So now that you are connected to the VPN, you can access any computer remotely on that network in which you have credentials for. The best way to do this is to head to the marketplace on your Droid and download the free version of Remote Desktop. This will allow you to RDC into any machine on the VPN network as stated before, allowing you to monitor your torrents, stream music, or grab an important file from work while on the go. The RDC program I have been using is “Remote RDP Demo”.