XP Home vpn built in?

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***** charles

Does XP Home have any vpn capability built in?
and if so how do I use it? I would like to be able
to help a friend.

thanks,
charles.....
 
***** charles said:
Does XP Home have any vpn capability built in?
and if so how do I use it? I would like to be able
to help a friend.

thanks,
charles.....
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If you just want to help someone then look at using TeamViewer. Its free for
personal use and works very well, IMHO...

http://www.teamviewer.com/index.aspx

Beyond that and to directly answer your question, yes XP Home can act as a
PPTP VPN server. Here are some pages that will help with that...

http://www.onecomputerguy.com/networking/xp_vpn_server.htm
http://www.onecomputerguy.com/networking/xp_vpn.htm

Alternatively, and a method I use is to setup a Secure Shell (SSH) server.
You can use strong authentication with a private/public key pair.

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

In both cases, ie. PPTP VPN or SSH, you can run VNC (any flavor) through the
secure tunnel to remotely control your friends desktop.

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