Mike wrote:
> If I want to connect to a remote computer over the Internet, behind
> a router, what shall I use ?
> Computer name only ? ISP-provided IP address ? Internal LAN IP
> address (192.168.0...... ) ?
> Thanks in advance.
Shenan Stanley wrote:
> Public IP address of the router and forward the port (3389) to the
> proper internal IP address via your router settings.
Mike wrote:
> As my brother, owner of the remote computer, is not too
> computer-savvy, wouldn't it be better and easier to use Remote
> Assistance, instead of RDC ? This way, no tweaks to the remote router
> would be necessary. Am I
> right ?
Still need to tweak things a bit - as you are not actually remoting directly
to your brother's machine - but to the router and then to your brother's
machine.
(And if this is not for you to help your brother - remote assistance is not
good unless someone is there to accept the connection.)
TeamViewer would be best in your case for remote help/etc. Free for
personal use.
http://teamviewer.com/index.aspx
UltraVNC Single Click is something you could setup as well...
http://www.uvnc.com/addons/singleclick.html
Once you have control of your brother's machine remotely - you could
configure his router for remote management and/or for the proper port
forwarding, etc. Even assign it a Dynamic DNS and make sure the settings
for Remote Desktop are correct on his PC so that he could remote to it by a
domain name instead of a number...
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Shenan Stanley
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