Remote Desktop

philjayj · 23 Jul 2006 at 19:45

Hi Everyone

I was hoping that I would be able to connect remotely to my PC from work. The PC i want to connect to is on a home network router and the OS is windows XP Pro.

Can I possibly have some instructions on what I need to do?

Thanks

Uhtred · 23 Jul 2006 at 19:56

enable remote desktop on the pc, make sure your user account has a password, forwartd port 3389 to the local ip of your computer. Then connect to your WAN ip with the RDP client from your work pc.

That's what you need to do, post back what you're unsure about and someone here will be able to give you more details

BloomerzUK · 23 Jul 2006 at 22:16

Alternatively, you could use a web based client.

www.logmein.com

I use it, and it's excellent.

Iceberg2 · 23 Jul 2006 at 22:41

mywebexpc

nickels · 23 Jul 2006 at 23:32

BloomerzUK said:
Alternatively, you could use a web based client.

www.logmein.com

I use it, and it's excellent.

i second that, it is very good

tedaC · 23 Jul 2006 at 23:39

nickels said:
i second that, it is very good

and i can third

JayMax · 23 Jul 2006 at 23:44

tedaC said:
and i can third

Yawn, but fourthed for effect. Excellent service for logging in remotely with zero hassle

I think I've got every computer I control or need to control setup with it.

momentimori · 24 Jul 2006 at 05:13

Its all so much better than old fangled terminal services

toString · 24 Jul 2006 at 09:54

How is it better than remote desktop? In RD I just type in my ip address and i'm logged into my computer. I can't see how that can be any worse than installing some third party stuff.

Pinkeyes · 24 Jul 2006 at 11:05

KingAdora said:
How is it better than remote desktop? In RD I just type in my ip address and i'm logged into my computer. I can't see how that can be any worse than installing some third party stuff.

Agree with you. RD Works fine, why complicate it ?

JimmyEatWorms · 24 Jul 2006 at 11:31

SOme companys might not let you used RD through their firewall. LogMeIn is a nice alternative.

bledd · 24 Jul 2006 at 18:01

RLBUHT said:
Hi Everyone

I was hoping that I would be able to connect remotely to my PC from work. The PC i want to connect to is on a home network router and the OS is windows XP Pro.

Can I possibly have some instructions on what I need to do?

Thanks

you need to set a static local ip for your machine

(use "ipconfig /all" in a cmd window to see what you need to type in to get it all working, then type it in manually in the network properties, tcp/ip window)

choose something like 192.168.1.123 (replace 123 with whatever you want (1 min, 255 max)

look at http://www.portforward.com/ if you don't know what i'm on about..

says all you need there!

this_is_gav · 24 Jul 2006 at 20:23

If you can't get a static IP from your ISP, then the best alternative would be to use something like FreeDNS along with DNS Updater. I know PCAnywhere can work this way, not sure about other remote clients though.