Next step for RDP...

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I've been using Remote Desktop happily for years on 4 computers, including a
laptop, all with XP Pro and on my "studio" network - still called
"Workgroup"
Now I want to take the big step of trying to connect to the studio computers
from the laptop via the internet, from far far away - what do I do - just
plug the laptop into an internet socket and pray? - if only! I really have
zero knowledge of domains etc
Can anyone enlighten me?!
 
I think it is more a case of having a "real world" ip address for the
machine you want to connect to and the using RDP to connect to that address
 
Peter G said:
I've been using Remote Desktop happily for years on 4 computers, including
a laptop, all with XP Pro and on my "studio" network - still called
"Workgroup"
Now I want to take the big step of trying to connect to the studio
computers from the laptop via the internet, from far far away - what do I
do - just plug the laptop into an internet socket and pray? - if only! I
really have zero knowledge of domains etc
Can anyone enlighten me?!
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You can use Remote Desktop across the public internet quite easily. The big
issue is making sure you open the appropriate port(s) on any firewall or
router between your network and the public internet and coming up with the
correct public IP address to call. See this page for help with the basics of
that...

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

Personally I use No-IP.com for remote addressing and subsequent access into
my home LAN...

One method for accessing more than one PC behind a firewall or router...

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

Another method to access multiple PCs behind a firewall or router using a
Secure Shell (SSH) tunnel with copSSH as the server package and the PuTTY
SSH client...

http://theillustratednetwork.mvps.org/Ssh/RemoteDesktopSSH.html

SSH with Tunnelier, a better SSH client in my opinion...

http://theillustratednetwork.mvps.org/Ssh/Configure-Tunnelier.html
http://theillustratednetwork.mvps.org/Ssh/SecureYourcopSSHServer-Vista.html
http://theillustratednetwork.mvps.org/Ssh/Private-publicKey-Tunnelier.html

Tunnelier is nice since you can configure it to automatically connect to the
SSH server PC with Remote Desktop when the SSH link is established.

The advantage of SSH is you only need one port open on your firewall or
router and you can use a private/public key pair (protected by a strong
password) for authentication versus a password only (strong or otherwise).

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So are you saying, assuming I have a dynamic address at the studio - that if
I phone home from timbuktu and ask them to go to http://checkip.dyndns.org/
or http://www.whatismyip.com/ and give me the address that results, and put
that into my laptop remote desktop setting - all will work as it did when I
was only a few feet away at the studio?

Can it be that easy?
 
That's really useful - especially the first part - slightly confused where I
put the No-IP.com software - on the laptop I presume?

Sorry - brain hurts or maybe turns to Putty when I get to copssh's - but I'm
trying!
 
Peter G said:
That's really useful - especially the first part - slightly confused where
I put the No-IP.com software - on the laptop I presume?

Sorry - brain hurts or maybe turns to Putty when I get to copssh's - but
I'm trying!
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No, the small No-IP.com client program runs on one of your home XP PCs as a
service. The way it works is the program contacts the No-IP.com servers on a
time scheduled basis (which is configurable). The servers then know what
your current public IP is and map that to the Fully Qualified Domain Name
(FQDN) that you selected when you sign up for the service. You then call
home using the FQDN...

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Al Jarvi (MS-MVP Windows Networking)

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Thanks again for your time - I'll give it a whirl from down the road before
I go to timbuktu - presumably that means I can use any computer, not just my
laptop, as long as it's got Remote Desktop.
 
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