remote desktop connection

[thenewoc]

hi

If i have a work laptop at home connected to my wifi and assuming remote desktop is switched on, on the laptop, can I remote connect to it from my desktop pc?

The laptop would be connected to work over vpn but does it still retain my home wifi IP address and connection to enable a remote connection from elsewhere on my network? I'm assuming the work laptop wouldn't have admin access and therefore would probably have 'network level authentication' enabled.
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Also, when you choose the display resolution in remote desktop is that making the host send the video in that resolution or is it just scaling what the host resolution is set to?

Am trying to understand whether there's enough benefit from a docking station solution & USB KVM switch vs remote desktop.

 

[ED209]

I did this for a week or so but wasn’t worth me having both on all the time but I used team viewer instead of Remote Desktop.

costly running a gaming desktop pc and a high end laptop running for 9 hours a day five days a week.

laptop connected via network cable to my super hub and desktop pc as well then just setup unattended access.

your work May have the port for Remote Desktop blocked so it may not work, you can always give it a try.

 

[bremen1874]

RDP over a LAN connection will be plenty fast enough for normal desktop work. The resolution you set isn't really going to matter.

It working will depend on how locked down the machine is, and how helpful your IT support is. They'd probably prefer you using RDP that's builtin to you installing additional software.

 

[thenewoc]

Thanks,

Seems the docking station is a better solution in terms of only needing one system to be on but am thinking of a desktop/virtual server machine in future anyway which will have a VM NAS to be on for. The docking station would make better use of an ultrawide to give the equivalent of two monitors plus the laptop screen. However, in the short term the RDP seems a no cost setup to try first. I flip flop between freelance and short term permanent contracts in my field of IT so don't know what the next laptop will be yet. The last one I used to RDP to servers on NHS client's network but never tried RDP'ing to the laptop itself.

 

[Django x2]

hi

If i have a work laptop at home connected to my wifi and assuming remote desktop is switched on, on the laptop, can I remote connect to it from my desktop pc?

Probably not. Not if your work IT department have any clue as to what they are doing

The laptop would be connected to work over vpn but does it still retain my home wifi IP address and connection to enable a remote connection from elsewhere on my network? I'm assuming the work laptop wouldn't have admin access and therefore would probably have 'network level authentication' enabled.

Again, not likely unless the VPN is split tunnel, but they wouldn't route RDP traffic across the LAN/WAN

Also, when you choose the display resolution in remote desktop is that making the host send the video in that resolution or is it just scaling what the host resolution is set to?

This setting is managed by Group Policy to the RDP client you can't make the resolution something the host cannot support.

 

[thenewoc]

@Django x2

Ok thanks, guess that's another +1 for a docking station then.