Enabling RDC over the Internet through two Firewalls

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Finding a definitive answer has been difficult... A step-by-step guide would be key, if someone could point me to it

The situation

Home Machine (WinXP-Pro) is on a cable modem and behind a D-Link router (modem gives dynamic IP to router, router gives 192.xxx.yyy.zzz to Home Hachine)

Work Machine (WinXP-Pro) is on a corporate network with all the usual bells and whistles. I can simulate it being truely remote by plugging it into the D-Link and using the VPN software to connect to said network. Of course, when it's on another port of the D-Link, I can RDC to Home Machine using the machine name and no IP

Is there a service that allows me to have the Home Machine name be discoverable via the Internet so I can RDC to it by machine name, regardless of firewalls, etc.
 
You can use one of the dynamic naming services that map an alias to your home ISPs assigned IP
address. I use a free service from No-IP.com that maps an alias to my ISPs DHCP assigned IP address.
A small program runs on your PC and contacts the No-IP.com servers on a periodic basis. The server
then maps the IP of your PC to the alias and propagates that over the public internet. It works very
well for me and its FREE....

Go to http://www.no-ip.com for help. Additional like services, some FREE and some $$$$, can be found
on this page...

http://www.remotenetworktechnology.com/ow.asp?Remote_Network_Home/Connections

You would call the remote PC using the alias...Remote access also presumes you have TCP Port 3389
open on any firewall/NAT/router's between the public internet and your home LAN.

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V. said:
Finding a definitive answer has been difficult... A step-by-step guide would be key, if someone could point me to it.

The situation:

Home Machine (WinXP-Pro) is on a cable modem and behind a D-Link router (modem gives dynamic IP to
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router, router gives 192.xxx.yyy.zzz to Home Hachine).
Work Machine (WinXP-Pro) is on a corporate network with all the usual bells and whistles. I can
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simulate it being truely remote by plugging it into the D-Link and using the VPN software to connect
to said network. Of course, when it's on another port of the D-Link, I can RDC to Home Machine
using the machine name and no IP.
Is there a service that allows me to have the Home Machine name be discoverable via the Internet
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so I can RDC to it by machine name, regardless of firewalls, etc.
 
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