Setting up Hamachi on OS X
Thursday, July 24th, 2008
It’s really too bad LogMeIn had to buy [suck the life out of] Hamachi. Hamachi lets you easily [really easily] setup your own virtual private network. It lets you link together remote computers as if they were on the same local network, no matter where they are, or what router they might be behind. Its one of those rare pieces of technology that magically “just works”
- Install Hamachi on any of your machines – it runs on Mac/Windows/Linux.
- You are automatically assigned a static virtual IP address in the 5.x.x.x address space
- Create or connect to a network – which has a name of your choosing, and is password protected.
- Enjoy
On a Mac, that means wonderful things like iTunes music sharing work directly across the internet. No matter where where your computers are – you can see whoever is on the network as long as they have an internet connection. You can also immediately access a screen sharing or file sharing session through finder with a click of a button, whether the machine is next to you – or on the other side of the world.
It’s really great. And it really IS that easy.
Some helpful hints on installation:
The easiest way to get up in running is by using the installer in the [ugly] HamachiX graphical front end. Their documentation walk you through everything. For an even better experience, configure Hamachi to startup at boot with these instructions hosted over at GitHub
