Remaining a member of Workgroup after I move
From: margie (anonymous_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 04/08/04
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Date: Thu, 8 Apr 2004 16:25:11 -0700
I am not an expert, but also have tight VNC and a lynksys
router. When my corporate IT department wants to take over
my computer in my home office, they have me hover my
cursor over the VNC icon running on the taskbar, it gives
the current IP address, then they can get in. I know how
frustrating it is trying to keep my parents in the
computer age from a remote location. I might also try this
to help my parents out. Best of luck.
>-----Original Message-----
>I am moving out of my parents house soon but I need to
>find a way to remain connected to their computers through
>our network so that I can fix things when they are
>running into problems.
>
>Right now we all use Windows XP Home and are part of the
>same Workgroup. I am able to use something called Real
>VNC in order to Remotely connect to their computers and
>take over their desktops when they need my help.
>
>Since I am moving out, I would like to be able to retain
>this ability to help them but I don't know how to go
>about it. First of all, Real VNC allows you to connect
>to any PC on the internet as long as you have that
>computers IP address and they have VNC Server installed
>on their PC. The only thing is that the computers at
>home run on cable modem through a Linksys router. In
>other words, the router is acting as DHCP server. So
>that standard 192.168.1.101 and 192.168.1.102 IPs only
>work locally, but won't work outside the home network.
>To make matters worse, the router is picking up it's IP
>from a remote DHCP server; in other words, I have no idea
>what IP address it is using because ipconfig /all only
>shows the IP addy that is administered to each PC by the
>router.
>
>The only thing I could think of is when I move out of the
>house, have my computer become a member of their
>workgroup. But is that even possible form a remote
>location? Or do you have to be connected to the same
>router in order to do that? If that's possible then I
>wouldn't even need IPs... I could just use computer names.
>
>Either way, can someone please suggest a solution to this
>please. Thank you very much.
>.
>
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