Remote Desktop Setup FAQ?

[Dick Sutton]

Does anyone have a FAQ on setting up remote desktop where the XP Pro machine
will be connected to by both XP Pro & XP Home?

Also, this remote connection will be via the internet. The XP pro host will
be behind a router and Windows firewall is enabled on the XP Pro host
machine.

All the sites that I have visited by Google'ing are basically about setup
connections on an internal LAN.

Thanks in advance.

Dick

 

[Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]]

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Does anyone have a FAQ on setting up remote desktop where the XP Pro
machine will be connected to by both XP Pro & XP Home?

Also, this remote connection will be via the internet. The XP pro
host will be behind a router and Windows firewall is enabled on the
XP Pro host machine.

All the sites that I have visited by Google'ing are basically about
setup connections on an internal LAN.

Thanks in advance.

Dick

Remote Desktop (the host) can be run on XP PRo only; I'm not sure where Home
enters into this (you can connect *from* it, but not *to* it).

You can open up Remote Desktop access in the Windows firewall, but for
access to it over the Internet, you need to open up TCP port 3389 in your
firewall/router, and forward it to the (non-changing) LAN IP of the WinXP
Pro box.

You will need to know the public IP address of the connection, so if you
have a dynamic IP I suggest you look at www.dyndns.com or www.no-ip.com or
similar.

 

[Dick Sutton]

Thank you Lanwench ,

That's what I was looking for: the port #. Strangely enough, in the
Microsoft Windows XP Pro for Admins book, no mention of port 3389.

Dick

"Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]"

 

[Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]]

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Thank you Lanwench ,

That's what I was looking for: the port #. Strangely enough, in the
Microsoft Windows XP Pro for Admins book, no mention of port 3389.

It's probably written in lemon juice, for security purposes.

Dick

"Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]"

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Remote Desktop (the host) can be run on XP PRo only; I'm not sure
where Home enters into this (you can connect *from* it, but not *to*
it). You can open up Remote Desktop access in the Windows firewall, but
for access to it over the Internet, you need to open up TCP port
3389 in your firewall/router, and forward it to the (non-changing)
LAN IP of the WinXP Pro box.

You will need to know the public IP address of the connection, so if
you have a dynamic IP I suggest you look at www.dyndns.com or
www.no-ip.com or similar.