Connecting to Remote PC's USB?

Hello All,

Have a successful Home Network set up via a hub. one of the things I would
really like to do is use a USB webcamera I have on my office PC upstairs as
a kind of security camera - I can twist it round so it looks over the drive
and car. There are a number of kids that are always messing around in the
street and this would save me constantly going upstairs to look out.

Is there a path or something I can do to connect to the USB camera upstairs
so that the piucture is displayed downstairs? All PC's running XP pro by
the way

Thanks

Rich

You can setup a web(cam)server on the upstairs PC which takes a picture
every x seconds and saves it as a webpage. You can view this picture over
the LAN from your other machine, could set the page to refresh every x
seconds also.

This is just a possibility. I know there is also some software that does
this automatically, post back if you need more info. Google around, also.

BR, George
"Fids" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
newsdhIb.13247$(E-Mail Removed)...
> Hello All,
>
> Have a successful Home Network set up via a hub. one of the things I
would
> really like to do is use a USB webcamera I have on my office PC upstairs
as
> a kind of security camera - I can twist it round so it looks over the
drive
> and car. There are a number of kids that are always messing around in
the
> street and this would save me constantly going upstairs to look out.
>
> Is there a path or something I can do to connect to the USB camera
upstairs
> so that the piucture is displayed downstairs? All PC's running XP pro by
> the way
>
> Thanks
>
> Rich
>
>


---
Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free.
Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com).
Version: 6.0.551 / Virus Database: 343 - Release Date: 11/12/2003

In article <odhIb.13247$(E-Mail Removed)>, "Fids"
(E-Mail Removed) says...
> Hello All,
>
> Have a successful Home Network set up via a hub. one of the things I would
> really like to do is use a USB webcamera I have on my office PC upstairs as
> a kind of security camera - I can twist it round so it looks over the drive
> and car. There are a number of kids that are always messing around in the
> street and this would save me constantly going upstairs to look out.
>
> Is there a path or something I can do to connect to the USB camera upstairs
> so that the piucture is displayed downstairs? All PC's running XP pro by
> the way
>
You need to run a streaming video server on the machine with the webcam,
which you can then connect to from anywhere on your network. You might
want to take a look at TrueTech WebCam Personal Edition, which is
freeware.
http://www.truetech.com/downloads/wcfree.exe