How do I connect to my pc at home.

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I have a Windows XP profesional at school, and I have
just XP at home. I would like to conect to my pc at
home, but I have no clue on how to conect the two
computers. I have a Linksys Router so the ip address are
the same. Please someone send me a step by step on how
to do this, because i have a headache.
 
-----Original Message-----
I have a Windows XP profesional at school, and I have
just XP at home. I would like to conect to my pc at
home, but I have no clue on how to conect the two
computers. I have a Linksys Router so the ip address are
the same. Please someone send me a step by step on how
to do this, because i have a headache.
.
oh and I forgot to mention that I have an open
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connection, (cable).
 
XP Home does not support the use of Remote Desktop in a "host" mode. 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

Since your home PC is behind a Linksys 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 "PPTP Pass Through" on
the router.

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

Or upgrade to XP Pro as suggested by Mahadev...:-)

If you have a Linksys BEFSR41 router, you might be interested in this recent thread that concerns
VPN and Linksys firmware versions.

http://groups.google.com/[email protected]#link5

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Al Jarvi (MS-MVP Windows Networking)

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