Accessing my laptop from a different location

[Guest]

I am in college and have a laptop with XP home on it and was wondering if
there is a way i can access my laptop (which is in my appartment) from a
computer on campus or from any computer for that matter? is there a way?
thanks.

 

[Shenan Stanley]

I am in college and have a laptop with XP home on it and was
wondering if there is a way i can access my laptop (which is in my
appartment) from a computer on campus or from any computer for that
matter? is there a way? thanks.

If you know the IP (and it is public (on the internet) and you open the
correct ports in any software firewall you have and/or allow forwarding
through any router you have.. Yes..

UltraVNC
http://ultravnc.sourceforge.net/

 

[Guest]

How do i figure out my IP ( i think it might be a dynamic IP though) . and i
am currently useing Norton Internet Sercurity.

 

[Sooner Al [MVP]]

If your ISP assigns a dynamic IP to your router or laptop or desktop PC at home, then a solution is
to setup an account with one of the dynamic naming services that maps a fully qualified domain name
to the IP. In my case I use a FREE service from No-IP.com. The No-IP.com software runs on my XP Pro
box and on a time schedule basis contacts the No-IP.com servers. The No-IP.com servers then know
what your IP is and maps that to a fully qualified domain name. That information is then propagated
over the public internet. You could then call the client PC using the fully qualified domain name.
It works very well for me when I call my home network using Remote Desktop.

http://www.no-ip.com

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Al Jarvi (MS-MVP Windows Networking)


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[Guest]

so after i set up no-ip which i just finished doing... i can be at any
computer and type in my domain name in the address bar in IE and i can access
files on my pc at home? is that how it works? Do i need to do anything to
keep other people from getting on my pc..? thanks,

 

[Guest]

i was looking at the realVNC and the UlrtaVNC. which is best. can you file
share with both? how worried would i have to be about the sercurity of these?
Thanks, keith

 

[Shenan Stanley]

i was looking at the realVNC and the UlrtaVNC. which is best. can you
file share with both? how worried would i have to be about the
sercurity of these? Thanks, keith

Use UltraVNC.

 

[Sooner Al [MVP]]

To add make sure you use the UltraVNC encryption plug-in since the native VNC data stream is not
encrypted...or run through a VPN tunnel...

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Al Jarvi (MS-MVP Windows Networking)

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