Connecting From Home 2

[dschmootz]

Hi All!

I would appreciate suggestions on the best way to connect from my home PC to my office PC, please. Both are XP Pro with DSL.
PCAnywhere...Remote Desktop Connection?

Thanks in advance....DON

 

[IslandCustom]

Been using Dameware Mini Remote Control with great success. I find it much more reliable and quicker than PCAnywhere. Check Dameware's site. You can download it there.

 

[cranebill]

Remote Desktop would be easiest I think. Is your work computer behind a router or anything? If it is you just need ip address of your router and route port 3089(i think would have to check) on the router to hit your work machine ip. If it is not behind a router you just need the ip address of the machine.

Bill

 

[dschmootz]

Hi.

Island Custom, I will check into that. Cranebill, both pc's are behind routers. Thanks for your quick replies.

DON

 

[bcastner]

RD as a native tool would be my first choice, but one of the versions of VNC is worth a very serious look.
I recommend TightVNC:

http://www.tightvnc.com/

 

[dschmootz]

Thanks all. Remote desktop worked great. I have another question, though. Can my friend use it if he has XP home edition on his home PC?

DON

 

[bcastner]

He can call into you, but not vice-versa.

 

[vbainchicago]

I've always been a big fan of

http://www.realvnc.com

Worked flawlessly for me for quite some time, and it's free.

VBAinChicago

http://www.jjscomputing.com

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[dschmootz]

Thanks. Ok...one other question. In Remote Desktop, how do you configure if BOTH WIN XP Pros are behind Linksys Routers? I can't find where to enter in router info. DON

 

[smah]

If you're going to use RD in both direction, you'll need to do this on both routers. Otherwise, only do it on the the router for the machine being connected to.

With most Linksys routers, connect to the administration page, Advanced section, Forwarding tab, and then set port 3389 to forward to the internal IP address of the computer. If you don't know it, you can get the computer's interal IP address by running ipconfig from a command prompt.

 

[cranebill]

One note to consider. If your PC is using dhcp from your router.... i would use a static ip rather than dynamic because the pc you are connecting to may not always have the same ip. If DHCP doesn't sign the computer you are trying to connect to the same IP all the time then RD will not always connect.

Bill