XP Home to XP Pro - over a VPN

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Id like to remote access my XP Pro machine at the office, from my XP Home
machine at home (and visa versa if possible). Can I do this? If so how?
 
Using Remote Desktop you can access/control our office XP Pro PC from home.
See this page for help with that...

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

To remotely access/control your XP Home (at home) PC from the office you
need something like UltraVNC. Get the server, client and encryption software
from...

http://ultravnc.sourceforge.net/

I recommend contacting the office network administrators first to see if
there are any company policies that may prohibit this, ie. connecting an
untrusted system (home) to a trusted system (office)...

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Thanks Sooner, I'll read through those now... however;

Not sure what difference this makes, but my VPN is up and running, the set
up is Linksys router @ home > to < Linksys router @ office. I'm assuming
Remote Desktop or UltraVNC will be secured via my VPN connection, is that
correct?

As far a administrators, well I'm a 2 man operation, and because I can't
afford an administrator, I assume the role. Are there any special security
precautions or setting I should apply?
 
As long as you can ping each PC through the tunnel you should be good to go.
The VPN tunnel will provide security for both the RDP and UltraVNC data
streams. Note the native RDP data stream is encrypted while the UltraVNC (or
any other flavor of VNC) is not...

As long as you trust the home system and your the network administrator and
your the boss then company policy is a moot point...:-)

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Al Jarvi (MS-MVP Windows Networking)

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