Re: Next step for RDP...

"Peter G" <peter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:%23zXOAzYYHHA.3996@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
I've been using Remote Desktop happily for years on 4 computers, including a laptop, all with XP Pro and on my "studio" network - still called "Workgroup"
Now I want to take the big step of trying to connect to the studio computers from the laptop via the internet, from far far away - what do I do - just plug the laptop into an internet socket and pray? - if only! I really have zero knowledge of domains etc
Can anyone enlighten me?!


You can use Remote Desktop across the public internet quite easily. The big issue is making sure you open the appropriate port(s) on any firewall or router between your network and the public internet and coming up with the correct public IP address to call. See this page for help with the basics of that...

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

Personally I use No-IP.com for remote addressing and subsequent access into my home LAN...

One method for accessing more than one PC behind a firewall or router...

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

Another method to access multiple PCs behind a firewall or router using a Secure Shell (SSH) tunnel with copSSH as the server package and the PuTTY SSH client...

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

SSH with Tunnelier, a better SSH client in my opinion...

http://theillustratednetwork.mvps.org/Ssh/Configure-Tunnelier.html
http://theillustratednetwork.mvps.org/Ssh/SecureYourcopSSHServer-Vista.html
http://theillustratednetwork.mvps.org/Ssh/Private-publicKey-Tunnelier.html

Tunnelier is nice since you can configure it to automatically connect to the SSH server PC with Remote Desktop when the SSH link is established.

The advantage of SSH is you only need one port open on your firewall or router and you can use a private/public key pair (protected by a strong password) for authentication versus a password only (strong or otherwise).

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