Remote Access

[vogel08]

I want to access "complete controll" my computer at home that has winxp pro with a router and a home network from my computer at work that has win2000 pro and is behind a firewall. Is this possible to do, if so what would be the best way to go about this and what would i need to change on my router?

 

[FredUG]

Try RealVNC (

http://www.realvnc.com)

and open ports 5800 and 5900 on the firewall.

Good luck,

FredUG

 

[John Lewis]

If VNC is the answer, and it sounds good to me, you will want to see

http://www.tightvnc.com

. Has compression available so it performs much better across the internet. Has some other nice features as well. Built upon the same code as realvnc.

Second point would be you don't need to worry about port 5800 unless you want to use the http vnc client, and you probably don't.

Third, since there is a router instead of just a firewall, 5900 will need to be forwarded to the host computer on the host network, not just 'opened'.

Also worth mentioning that there are many other flavors of VNC, most offering some feature specific to a particular use. Most also have the problem of being very unsecure, so instead of forwarding 5900 I would suggest setting up a VPN connection to your home computer or running VNC over SSH.

 

[John Lewis]

Having read again, it looks like the computer you want to control is running XP, so you could use the XP remote desktop, see

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;315328

You would need to forward 3398 in this case. Same security issues apply, so it would be better to either run the connection over VPN or SSH.