How to hook up Host and Remote xp

[Guest]

Hello, it is a very simple question that windows likes to explain 20
different ways and I just want one answer that will work. My office computer
is the host, My laptop is the remote. I want to use my office computer
through my laptop at home. The office and my home has DSL, both have XP
Professional. What do I have to do to access my office computer at home?
Thank you very much

 

[Sooner Al [MVP]]

Presuming the office PC is running XP Pro you can look at this page for help...

http://theillustratednetwork.mvps.org/RemoteDesktop/RemoteDesktopSetupandTroubleshooting.html

If the office PC is running XP Home or some other flavor of Windows you might look at using UltraVNC
(or some other flavor of VNC)...

http://ultravnc.sourceforge.net/
http://home.comcast.net/~msrc4plugin/

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

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