Re: Win XP Home & Remote assistance

One other thing about my question - it's NOT for a intranet / corporate environment/ domain.
My questions are related only to home users on the public internet.
I did find a lot of info online, but like:
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/winxppro/maintain/rmassist.mspx?pf=true#EDAA talks about it but mostly related to domain issue /how-to's.



"Louis Rost" <junkie123ATlonepineDOTcom@> wrote in message news:6a92t15ud9n1rqnqn1jahrb0cr7ud03vpl@xxxxxxxxxx
I've used Remote assistance between 2 XP home systems using email
(eudora) without ever forwarding ports on my router. I never tried
using windows messenger. Remote assistance is enabled as you
described.

Lou


On Fri, 20 Jan 2006 06:48:01 -0500, "Rick \"Nutcase\" Rogers"
<rick@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hi Peter,

Gpedit.msc wouldn't be the solution anyhow. Both systems should have Remote
Assistance (it's Remote Desktop that is not available in WinXP Home), and it
can be enabled on the Remote tab of System properties in the control panel
(or start/run "control sysdm.cpl"). The tricky part is that the router must
be configured to forward port 3389 to the internal IP of both machines in
order for the machines to connect. Log into the router and check the
advanced settings.

--
Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
Associate Expert - WindowsXP Expert Zone
www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone
Windows help - www.rickrogers.org

"Peter" <Peter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:14E2E65F-A7EB-4745-88BB-102E5D405610@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
there seem to be a few people asking about remote assistance and
gpedit.msc
and a lot of replies are telling them you don't have that file in XP Home.
So
i figured i'll ask a question specifically for XP Home & Remote
assistance:

How do i configure two computers to use remote assistance over the
internet,
through firewalls. Both computers are running windows xp home SP2. when
the
request is sent via email, or MSN and i try to connect, i get "Remote
Assistance connection could not be established because the remote host
name
could not be resolved. Please try again."

Please remember XP Home does not have gpedit.msc


Thankyou to all who reply


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