My Aunt in Hawaii wants me in New Jersey to have permanent access to remote log.

[John Luke]

Hello I read knowledge base articles about requests for
assistance at http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?
scid=kb;en-us;306791&Product=winxp#1 but we have Windows
XP and I would like to see if there is a way so that I
could not need to worry about panes and such and just map
the drives on my Aunt's computer in my networking drives
area when I need to assist her without requests from her.
She is very new to computers and has requested my
assistance in setting up MSN Instant Messenger or Windows
Messenger and I need to be able to just get in there and
also provide them with files to popup on their various
account login desktops from time to time as messages
because they cannot even use e-mail very well either. I
have her researching her IP number from her ISP and any
other Net information I might need on her end. The
question is, does Windows XP offer a permanent solution
for closely related family members to setup permanent file
sharing over the internet so that their computers may be
protected from outsiders and only allow the intended
person to access the computer? Or does she have to get a
3rd party program for this feature?

I have posted my e-mail address in the past in these
forums and have then received wayyyy too much e-mail from
tons of addresses appearing to be from people with all
sorts of different msn and microsoft domains and
subdomains with repetitive critical update patches. It
would be nice if there was a way to register users for
these forums and report spam from members and only allow e-
mail through the forums. Perhaps making people use their
Windows key to access the forums would be a good idea. Oh
and by the way, stop telling people they can't have
support because their product is OEM purchased, it is the
same product dangit and you made the killing selling it so
deliver customer service for it!!!

 

[philip ashley]

try this?

http://www.realvnc.com/

hth

philip ashley

 

[Sooner Al]

Options include...

1. If your Aunt is running XP Pro, then look at Remote Desktop.

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone/focuson/remotedesktop.asp

2. If your Aunt is *NOT* running XP Pro then VNC is the alternative. If you use UltraVNC it has an
encryption plug-in available. Get the server, client and encryption plug-in from...

http://ultravnc.sourceforge.net/
http://home.comcast.net/~msrc4plugin/

The encryption plug-in is important because the VNC data stream is *NOT* natively encrypted.
Otherwise you could run VNC through a VPN tunnel...

http://www.onecomputerguy.com/networking/xp_vpn_server.htm
http://www.onecomputerguy.com/networking/xp_vpn.htm

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[Guest]

unless you both have static ip's there is no way to set up perm drive mapping, you might do it with dynamic
dhcp if you both leave your systems on 24/7. why not have her email you the log file on a reg basis?

 

[philip ashley]

for dynamic ip's maybe try these

http://www.directupdate.net
http://www.dyndns.org/services/dyndns/

hth

philip ashley

unless you both have static ip's there is no way to set up perm drive

mapping, you might do it with dynamic

dhcp if you both leave your systems on 24/7. why not have her email you

the log file on a reg basis?