Help with Remote Desktop...

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Frank McMahon

Want to test this tomorrow, but not exactly sure what to set as far as
settings. I have a cable modem at the office, broadband, XP Pro, have remote
desktop setup, have the firewall bypass for remote desktop set. On the
office PC when I boot up it just boots with one account, Administrator, no
passwork or anything. Computer is powered on.

On my laptop out in the field...what do I type in to the remote desktop
software. My office computer name? Is Administrator my username? Do I also
type in my IP address?

Any help would be great...software on both seems in order but I want to make
sure I have settings on both set so when I go out in the field it will work
OK...thanks!

Frank
 
Use the public IP of the firewall when calling. The user account you login with Remote Desktop must
be an Administrator or a member of the Remote Desktop Users group *AND* have a password.

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/mobility/getstarted/remoteintro.mspx

TCP Port 3389 must be open on the firewall...

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Al...here is an additional problem maybe you or someone can help with. I
have just a regular XP administrator account, default windows account, but
it is not password protected. When I go to add a password protected account
(for using remote desktop) it says I need to create at least one computer
administrator account. So I did that today, however it started me with just
the default windows setup (all my desktop stuff was gone, bookmarks,
settings, etc). My outlook .pst was history too, almost lost it!! :O

However I WAS able to log in fine remotely with remote desktop.

I have since rolled back to a restore point from yesterday but now I am not
sure what to do. Can I just add a password to my main adminstrator account.
I want to KEEP all my settings however it seems they go to default after I
create a computer administraor account. Help!

Frank
 
Oh I also have a "ASP.NET Machine A..." account, not sure if this can be
used to log in. I think .net or something was installed/activated after I
installed Franklin Covey's PlanPlus for Outlook.

Thanks!
 
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