Remote desktop Option Missing

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Hi experts,

I tried to setup remote desktop on a smalll home network (3 pc). .
2 works, one is not working
The one which is not working is running XP home with sp2.
When I right click on my computer on that computer, going to properies,
remote, I can only see Remote Assistance, but Remote Desktop is missing, so
that I can NOT check "Allow users to connect remotelt to this computer". How
can I fix that??

Please help.
 
The Remote Desktop feature is in XP Professional only, I'm afraid. XP Home
has only Remote Assistance available.
 
R.T said:
I tried to setup remote desktop on a smalll home network (3 pc). .
2 works, one is not working
The one which is not working is running XP home with sp2.
When I right click on my computer on that computer, going to
properies, remote, I can only see Remote Assistance, but Remote
Desktop is missing, so that I can NOT check "Allow users to connect
remotelt to this computer". How can I fix that??
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Windows XP Home Edition does not include Remote Desktop - only Remote
Assistance.
You can use something like UltraVNC to remotely control a Windows XP Home
Edition PC..

Search using Google!
http://www.google.com/
(How-to: http://www.google.com/intl/en/help/basics.html )
 
I have also tried to install VNC on this comoputer, but for some reasons, I
couldn't connect to it (says remote connection is not enable or something).
But I can I can use VNC on this computer connect to another PC.

Any ideas?
 
R.T said:
I have also tried to install VNC on this comoputer, but for some
reasons, I couldn't connect to it (says remote connection is not
enable or something). But I can I can use VNC on this computer
connect to another PC.

Any ideas?
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Did you open the proper ports through the Windows Xp Firewall?
 
It works when I turn off the firewall on XP Home edition. Now I have to
figure it how how to use configure the ports when firewall is on.

any ideas??
 
R.T said:
It works when I turn off the firewall on XP Home edition. Now I have
to figure it how how to use configure the ports when firewall is on.

any ideas??
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Assuming you followed the advice here and got ULTRAVNC, then you could look
on their web site and see that it uses ports 5800 and 5900 (matter of fact -
almost all versions of VNC I know of use these ports.)

Open those through your firewall - add the exceptions.
 
Thank you very much, by following your steps, my my pc works great.
My 2 computers are internal PCs (192.168.1.x and 192.168.1.xx).

Do you know if I should open the same ports (5900) for VNC on my linksys
router?
So that I can connect from outisde, such as if I am at the hotel.


Thank you.
 
R.T said:
Thank you very much, by following your steps, my my pc works great.
My 2 computers are internal PCs (192.168.1.x and 192.168.1.xx).

Do you know if I should open the same ports (5900) for VNC on my
linksys router?
So that I can connect from outisde, such as if I am at the hotel.
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You should use Port Forwarding if you plan on just being able to access one
PC.
Forward certain port requests to your public IP through your router to one
of the internal IPs.
(See the manual.)
 
I would be quite cautious opening ports directly for VNC in a router.

The caution being that you want to be sure the VNC version you are using has
no exploits against it--i.e. can't be used to compromise your system, and
that you are using encryption across the Internet--particularly, that any
credentials you supply are encrypted securely.

You'd be safer connecting via a PPTP VPN, and then using VNC within that
encrypted tunnel.

I believe this is possible with XP Home, but it's been a while since I've
looked at it.

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You can use UltraVNC with its encryption plug-in and only open TCP Port 5900
or as Bill noted run VNC through a VPN or a Secure Shell (SSH) tunnel. Here
is one way to use the SSH tunnel method...

http://theillustratednetwork.mvps.org/RemoteDesktop/SSH-RDP-VNC/RemoteDesktopVNCandSSH.html

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