can host os be xp home edition

[tony from Darwin Australia]

Looking at the ms howto article on setting up the host
comp. In system when I look at the remote tab all I see is
Remote Assistance not Remote Desktop as shown in the ms
howto ( re: setting up host computer). Am I to assume that
the Home edition os cannot be the host. Is there a way
around this as I am a student 3600 kilometers from home
awaiting a spinal surgery and need access to my Uni work
on my home computer. Help would be grestly appreciated.
Regards Tony

 

[Sooner Al]

Tony,

Your correct...XP Home edition can *NOT* act as a Remote Desktop host...So, with that said...you can
use VNC or NetMeeting Remote Desktop Sharing to access/control a XP Home box remotely...

Get the VNC software from...

http://ultravnc.sourceforge.net/

To use VNC through a firewall/NAT/router you need to forward TCP Port 5900. See the FAQ for details.

http://www.realvnc.com/faq.html#firewall

For help with NetMeeting RDS look at this KB article. NetMeeting is built-in to XP and can not be
upgraded...

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;233175

To use RDS through a firewall/NAT/router you need to forward TCP Port 1503. See the Resource Kit for
details.

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/netmting/reskit/netmtg3/part2/chapter4.asp

Note that the VNC data stream is *NOT* encrypted so that is a potential security problem if you use
if over the public internet. Some folks run VNC through VPN tunnels to get around that issue.

http://www.onecomputerguy.com/networking/xp_vpn_server.htm
http://www.onecomputerguy.com/networking/xp_vpn.htm

If your home PC is behind a router, in order to use a VPN tunnel you would need to forward TCP Port
1723 to the private LAN IP of your XP Home box and enable GRE Protocol 47 traffic. Some routers call
this "PPTP Pass Through" or "VPN Pass Through" or something similar. In the case of the XP Internet
Connection Firewall (ICF), GRE Protocol 47 traffic is automatically enabled if you follow these
instructions...

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;309524

In all of the cases I detailed, you call using the public IP of the router/PC, ie. the IP assigned
by your ISP.

--
Al Jarvi (MS-MVP Windows Networking)

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