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I have win xp at office and 98 at home. I have broadband at both places. We do not have any office network at office. How do I set up a remote connection so that I may be able to leave the office computer running and access that computer with my home pc. Secondly, I do not have a domain name. Can I access my office computer with my home computer. Please help.
 
If the office PC is running XP Pro then you can use Remote Desktop. Look at these pages for help
with that...

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/pro/using/howto/gomobile/remotedesktop/default.asp
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone/focuson/remotedesktop.asp

If the office PC is running XP Home then UltraVNC is an option. Get the server, client and
encryption plug-in from...

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

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but how would I know sitting at home where I have to login to. I really do not know the specifics. Do I have to buy a domain name and relay the domain with my machine which should act as a server
 
Use the public IP of the office PC to call. That is the IP assigned by your office ISP.

If the PC is connected directly to a broadband modem of some type, ie. DSL or cable, then run the
"ipconfig /all" command to get the current IP or going to either http://www.whatismyip.com/ or
http://checkip.dyndns.org/ to get the current IP.

If the PC is behind a firewall/NAT/router then go to either http://www.whatismyip.com/ or
http://checkip.dyndns.org/ to get the current IP. Call the office PC using that IP... Note that in
this case you also need to forward TCP Port 3389 to the private LAN IP of the office PC your trying
to connect to. Consult your office network/computer administrators for help with that.

If your office ISP assigns a public IP dynamically then you might want to look at using a dynamic
naming service to map the IP to a known fully qualified domain name. In my case I use a FREE service
from No-IP.com. The No-IP.com software runs on one of my XP Pro boxes and on a time schedule basis
contacts the No-IP.com servers. The No-IP.com servers then know what my current public IP (DHCP
assigned by my ISP) is and maps that to a fully qualified domain name. That information is then
propagated over the public internet. I then call the destination PC, from a remote location, using
the fully qualified domain name. It works very well for me using Remote Desktop.

http://www.no-ip.com

Others, some free and some $$$$...

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

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Use the 210.214.18.26 address. What type of broadband do you have at the office, DSL?

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Hi Al,
We have a cable broadband at office, the one without modem, with a lan card. I have another computer at office. The internet connection is shared on both machines. On both machines, when I go to whatismyip.com, it gives me the same ip address ie 210.214.18.26, how is it possible? Please help.
 
The cable broadband service is shared so both the http://www.whatismyip.com site will report the
same public IP for both PCs. You apparently have a firewall/NAT/router between the PCs and the cable
modem which is why the ipconfig command gave you a private LAN IP of 10.X..X.X for the one PC. Do
the same "ipconfig /all" command on the other PC and compare results. It should report a 10.X.X.X
address also...

What this means is you need to figure out how to forward TCP Port 3389 through the
firewall/NAT/router to the private LAN IP of the XP Pro Remote Desktop your trying to reach. Talk to
your local network administrators about that issue...

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