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Sharetool: Bonjour over VPN for the rest of us!

Crafted exclusively for Mac OS X 10.5.8 and later, ShareTool is hands down, the fastest, easiest, and most secure way to access all of your Bonjour services from anywhere in the world.

What is ShareTool and why should I care?

Scenario: You’ve just purchased a brand new iMac and MacBook and are simply loving it. You’ve set up your home or office network exactly the way you want it. You have file sharing between the two machines and can transfer your documents easily between them; you can listen to your iMac’s iTunes Library from the MacBook and view your MacBook’s iPhoto Library from your iMac. Everything on your network works exactly as you want it to and life is beautiful.

What happens when you have to leave (i.e. work or travel) the comfort of your new custom configured network? Wouldn’t it be nice to know that with one mouse click you will be able to access almost everything you’ve just setup from anywhere in the world securely? Before ShareTool, this was simply not possible without an extremely (if at all possible) complicated setup even for those in the know. Not anymore! With ShareTool, that complex procedure is reduced to a simple mouse click and as a result, yes, you can be at two places at the same time!

ShareTool lets you access all of the Bonjour services on your home network from anywhere in the world. This includes iTunes Music Sharing, Screen Sharing, File Sharing, printing, and more.

With ShareTool, you can listen to your entire iTunes music library at work, control the screen of any of your home computers, or grab that important file you forgot to bring with you. And this is simply the tip of the iceberg. With ShareTool, it’s as if you’ve never left your own network!

Here’s what ShareTool user, Georges Tomazi, had to say about ShareTool:

” The company I work for doesn’t allow outbound connections other than TCP 22/80/443. Thanks to ShareTool, I can now access to all my machines at home, including printers, Time Capsule, etc. The browsing proxy is great as well to test firewall rules and web sites seen as coming from the outside. And last but not least, ShareTool allowed me to get access to my POP/IMAP/SMTP servers by bypassing the company network policy.

Of course, it would probably be possible to do the same thing by building SSH tunnels, playing with the VPN and and hacking around, but ShareTool makes it all up and running in ONE minute – 100% hassle free. “