Accessing home wireless laptop from outside Network

[chiplarsen]

Hi, I have a wireless laptop that I am trying to access from work (outside home network). The machine that I will use to access my laptop is running W2K SP4. My laptop is running Windows XP Pro. I am trying to use RealVNC to connect between the two. I have my laptop in the DMZ of my router, Linksys WRT54G. I have given the laptop a static IP. I have also setup port forwarding using the static IP address that I gave the laptop. I am using port 5900. I can not connect to my home laptop. Is there a better product to use? Should I be doing something different? I can ping my router from work. Thank you.

 

[pgaliardo]

If your laptop is running XP SP2, then the firewall is probably enabled. You may have to go into control panel and turn it off just as a test.

 

[chiplarsen]

Thank you, pgaliardo. I never thought of that. I will try that.

 

[Elmeri]

hi, i've been using ntrconnect to remote access between my laptop, home pc and work place. have to say it has always worked well and hasn't caused problems with the xp's firewall.