Remote Access Home from Work PC

[Guest]

How do I remote into my home computer from work? We have a Windows 2003
environment. Office computer is WinXP SP1, no firewalls. Home laptop is WinXP
SP2. I have a WRT54G wireless Linksys Router. My cable company says that they
do not have any firewalls enabled on my CableModem and both DHCP. I've
temporarily disabled the firewall on my router and laptop. What ports do I
configure on my home pc and on the router? Do I have to secure a DNS address?
If so, how do I make all three components Work PC, Router, Home PC)
communicate when connecting to home from work? Thanks in advance for your
responses!

 

[Shenan Stanley]

How do I remote into my home computer from work? We have a Windows
2003 environment. Office computer is WinXP SP1, no firewalls. Home
laptop is WinXP SP2. I have a WRT54G wireless Linksys Router. My
cable company says that they do not have any firewalls enabled on
my CableModem and both DHCP. I've temporarily disabled the firewall
on my router and laptop. What ports do I configure on my home pc
and on the router? Do I have to secure a DNS address? If so, how do
I make all three components Work PC, Router, Home PC) communicate
when connecting to home from work? Thanks in advance for your
responses!

Windows XP what? Home or Professional?

 

[Shenan Stanley]

How do I remote into my home computer from work? We have a Windows
2003 environment. Office computer is WinXP SP1, no firewalls. Home
laptop is WinXP SP2. I have a WRT54G wireless Linksys Router. My
cable company says that they do not have any firewalls enabled on
my CableModem and both DHCP. I've temporarily disabled the firewall
on my router and laptop. What ports do I configure on my home pc
and on the router? Do I have to secure a DNS address? If so, how do
I make all three components Work PC, Router, Home PC) communicate
when connecting to home from work? Thanks in advance for your
responses!

Windows XP what? Home or Professional?

Also - you should be forwarding the proper port (3389) through the router to
the proper machine(part of the router config) and leaving your software
firewall on, but allowing that port access.

Remember - if you have a router/NAT box - you have a private IP on your
machine and the router has the public address you use.

 

[Sooner Al [MVP]]

If your home PC is running XP Pro then look at Remote Desktop as an
option...

http://theillustratednetwork.mvps.org/RemoteDesktop/RemoteDesktopSetupandTroubleshooting.html

If your home PC is running XP Home the look at UltraVNC as an option... Make
sure you use the encryption plug-in (on both PCs) and the XP video driver
(on the home PC only)...

http://ultravnc.sourceforge.net/

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[Guest]

XP Pro on both PCs. NAT'ing isn't enabled on my wireless router.

 

[Guest]

DynIP.com worked...thanks!!

If your home PC is running XP Pro then look at Remote Desktop as an
option...

http://theillustratednetwork.mvps.org/RemoteDesktop/RemoteDesktopSetupandTroubleshooting.html

If your home PC is running XP Home the look at UltraVNC as an option... Make
sure you use the encryption plug-in (on both PCs) and the XP video driver
(on the home PC only)...

http://ultravnc.sourceforge.net/

--

Al Jarvi (MS-MVP Windows Networking)

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mutual benefit of all of us...
The MS-MVP Program - http://mvp.support.microsoft.com
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[Sooner Al [MVP]]

Good... Thanks for the feedback...

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Al Jarvi (MS-MVP Windows Networking)

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mutual benefit of all of us...
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