Re: Next step for RDP...

That's really useful - especially the first part - slightly confused where I
put the No-IP.com software - on the laptop I presume?

Sorry - brain hurts or maybe turns to Putty when I get to copssh's - but I'm
trying!

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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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