Setting up Hamachi on OS X

Jeff Mancuso July 24th

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”

  1. Install Hamachi on any of your machines - it runs on Mac/Windows/Linux.
  2. You are automatically assigned a static virtual IP address in the 5.x.x.x address space
  3. Create or connect to a network - which has a name of your choosing, and is password protected.
  4. 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

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3 Responses to “Setting up Hamachi on OS X”

  1. Dave Says:
    July 24th, 2008 at 4:36 pm

    I lost consciousness reading this around word 15 of the first run-on sentence:

    LogMeIn provides organizations and individuals with secure, easy-to-use and cost effective solutions for remotely supporting, connecting and accessing digital information, applications and Internet-enabled devices. Our vision is to improve mobility, business productivity and connectivity through our on-demand software-as-a-service solutions. Our passion - delighting customers and users of our technology.

  2. Dave Says:
    July 24th, 2008 at 5:07 pm

    BTW, the out-of-box experience is really what sets hamachi apart from say, tinc.

  3. Jeff Mancuso Says:
    July 24th, 2008 at 7:29 pm

    LogMeIn still hasn’t made a universal binary of Hamachi, that really fries me.

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