XP Home Ed. Remote Desktop over cable from my office lan?

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dean

I would really like to be able to help my wife at home with the
computer. At home we have regular cable modem on XP Home Edition. At
work I am on a LAN with XP Pro.

Is it possible to set this up so that I can take control of the home PC
from my office PC?

Thanks!

Dean
 
dean said:
I would really like to be able to help my wife at home with the
computer. At home we have regular cable modem on XP Home Edition. At
work I am on a LAN with XP Pro.

Is it possible to set this up so that I can take control of the home PC
from my office PC?

Thanks!

Dean
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Yes, you can do this like so:
- Enable Remote Desktop on your home PC.
- Assign a fixed internal IP address to it.
- Create a tunnel through your home firewall/router
so that port 3389 packets are delivered to your
home PC.
- Register a free domain name with a provider such
as www.dyndns.com.
- Run a service on your home PC that announces
your external IP address to the www.dyndns.com
DNS.

You do not need the last two items if your external
IP address at home is static.
 
Ok thanks for that! I take it that home edition has all the remote
desktop built in?
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No it doesn't and Pegasus was/is wrong.

you will need to use a third-party s/w to accomplish this, like RealVNC
or similar.
 
Dan - Thaks for the message, that looks good. One question though (I
have looked at the documentation): When I enter the IP address in the
client viewer, is that the same IP address as what I get from the
command prompt on the server by typing IPCONFIG?

Thanks

Dean
 
I overlooked the "Home" bit in "Windows XP Home",
hence you have to use something like WinVNC. The
rest is still valid: You must forward port 5900 to your
internal IP address, and you must register a domain
name if your external address is dynamic. This is NOT
the same as your internal address! www.whatismyip.com
will tell you what yours is - it probably changes if
you turn off your cable modem overnight.
 
If I tell the wife to go to whatismyIP, can't she tell me what the IP
address is? If so, can't I just tell my vnc client that info and just
connect? I don't see why I need to register a domain name.
 
Also I do have (under Start|Accessories|Commications|Remote Desktop
Connection), but the help there is abominable.
 
If you're happy to call your wife each time your external
IP address has changed then your solution will work just
fine - provided that she is home!

About the question in your next reply: Since WinXP
Home does not have Remote Desktop, there seems
little point in looking up Remote Desktop help.
 
Morning all,

You can download the remote desktop "add-on / patch / feature" from the MS
website (where exactly on the site ... good question). I've got it on a
Win2k server, works perfect. Theres also "Remote Assistance" to think about.
With a good internet connection that works very well as the user can see
what your doing at the same time (and maybe learn a little).

Getting hot here today, nearly 38°.

T
 
You do not need any "add-on/patch" for Win2000 server -
it already runs Terminal Server (which is what you need
for Remote Desktop). Now where exactly is this site you
had in mind? Sounds interesting but it's not much use unless
you can provide details.
 
Morning,

Now, before we all start getting a bit silly here, I think rule one should
be "Never Assume". I do not have a terminal server licence and consequently
my Win 2K server is not running terminal services, its just a data storage
server, but yes it is enabled to accept remote connection via the single
connection TS option. However, I am a little lazy and prefere to connect to
it from my desk (which I think it is here you assumed my desktop is XP, its
not, its also 2K, abiet the server version) as opposed to walking across the
room. Remote desktop is an XP function and it does not appear within the Win
2K environment.

So I downloaded this;

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/downloads/tools/rdclientdl.mspx

And hey presto I save myself having to buy a new pair of shoes. Now you can
download this little bit I mention above and install it on a XP home edition
PC, amazing really. But in the aspect this wont really help Dean as he wants
to connect to his home PC & not the home PC connecting to his work so lets
leave that one to rest.

For me then the solution would be remote assistance (or Assistance à
distance as my OS is in French).

If all of the above is going to involve a sarcastic reply, please, dont
waste time tapping away on your keyboard.

Be nice to people, T
 
You do not need a licence to run the Terminal Server on
Windows 2000 Server. It comes with two licences by
default.

The link you quote is for the Remote Desktop client.
The OP needs the Remote Desktop host. It is built into
WinXP Professional and into Windows Server but not
into WinXP Home. No banana this time.

GotoMyPC is a commercial product whereas WinVNC
is free. Still no banana!
 
Whoops, server error, this address is unknown to all persons describing
themselves as an over inflated flying horse.

Don't reply & please don't try to pass on to others information which
equates to the stuff that comes out of your flying horse's backside & that
does not help even the fly's which settle on the mound of whatever it is your
flying horse left behind.

Yep, "gotomypc" is commercial but you can try it for free for a period or is
it you want everything free? If you want everything for free have you ever
contributed something for others free of charge?

I shall gleefully uncheck the "notify me of replies" box.

As they once said "Dont call us, well call you".
 
dean said:
So how does one go about enabling a port 5900?
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You addressed your question to "The Union". Going by his
replies in this thread, you are unlikely to get much help from
him - his responses tend to be incorrect or abusive. Seeing
that this thread has now gone sour, I suggest you start a
new one.
 
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