Remote Desktop on my Home PC for when I am away from Home.

[Rozy]

I am trying to set up a connection from my laptop which runs XP Home to
my Home Workstation whic runs XP Professional at home I have a wireless
wanadoo/orange livebox. I realise I need to set up some sort of vpn but
is there a straightforward afforrable way I can set this up? I work
from home, but have to travel to different sites as well, so it would
be nice to access my workstation occasionally when I am somewhere else.

I have set up remote desktop so I can access my workstation from my
laptop when we are both on the same wireless network and workgroup, but
is there a way to do it from other wireless networks?

Please help.

 

[Sooner Al [MVP]]

You don't need to setup a VPN, although a lot of folks including myself do
so, in order to use Remote Desktop. See this page for help...

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

If you do want to go the VPN route then Remote Desktop through a Secure
Shell (SSH) tunnel is quite easy to setup and use...

http://theillustratednetwork.mvps.org/Ssh/RemoteDesktopSSH.html

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