remote desktop and web desktop help

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Is there a difference between remote desktop and remote
web desktop? Which is better? I am trying to start a
remote connection from my laptop to my office machine
through the NET. My office machine, the host, is behind
a router. My ISP helped long enough to do the port
forwarding on the router, or so they said.
 
Assuming you can load the Remote Desktop client on your laptop, ie. see your network administrators
for permission to do this, then, IMHO, the normal Remote Desktop client is easier to use. This
assumes your router at work is correctly forwarding TCP Port 3389 to the private LAN IP of your
desktop.

The web based method means you need IIS running on the desktop or a IIS server in-house and that you
also have TCP Port 80 forwarded through the office router.

The upside of the web based method is you can access your PC, using Remote Desktop, from virtually
any PC with installing the client software. The downside is the added complexity of the IIS server
and its setup and security...

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Assuming you can load the Remote Desktop client on your
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laptop, ie. see your network administrators
for permission to do this, then, IMHO, the normal Remote
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Desktop client is easier to use. This
assumes your router at work is correctly forwarding TCP
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Port 3389 to the private LAN IP of your
desktop.

The web based method means you need IIS running on the
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desktop or a IIS server in-house and that you
also have TCP Port 80 forwarded through the office router.

The upside of the web based method is you can access
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your PC, using Remote Desktop, from virtually
any PC with installing the client software. The downside
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is the added complexity of the IIS server
and its setup and security...
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group for the mutual benefit of all of us...
The MS-MVP Program - http://mvp.support.microsoft.com
This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights...



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Thanks,
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All machines are using XP Pro. I guess I will need to
double check that the port forwarding is working corrctly.
 
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