Re: Remote Access from work to home

"WenMax" <WenMax@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Hello!

I was hoping someone could advise me as to what's the best way to remotely
access a home computer from work. The owners of the company I work for
can
VPN (SonicWall Global Client) from their home computer to the LAN at work
no
problem. However, if they wish to go the other direction (work to home
PC),
what is the best method to accomplish this? We have a SBS 2003 server at
work with Win XP Pro workstations and the home computer is Win XP Pro as
well.

There are a number of means. "SBS Rocker" has suggested gotomypc which is
almost certainly the simplest approach but probably also the most costly.

You could use either RDC or VNC to access your home XP Pro pc. The
difficultly is getting a network connection to it. So:

1. Do you have a fixed ip address at home? If not then sign up with dynamic
dns provider such as no-ip.com or dyndns.com. (no-ip.com is free for their
basic service which is more than adequate, not used dyndns.com.) Once you do
this you should either have a dns name or ip address that you can connect
to.

2. Is your home pc behind a router? If it is then you will need to open the
ports in the router and direct RDC or VNC (or whatever package you are
using) to your PC. RDC required port 3389 forwarded, VNC requires port 5901.
You might need to configure the firewall on your home pc as well. [I started
a review of remote control clients, but currently only include the main ones
and still have others I need to include:
http://www.cryer.co.uk/resources/remote_control/index.htm]

That done you should be able to connect to your home pc using RDC or VNC. If
you have any problems getting this to work then try telnetting to your home
pc on the RDC/VNC port - this should give you an indication of whether the
connection route is okay or whether your company blocks outgoing connections
(a possibility).

An alternative way of doing all this and probably a more secure way would be
to establish a VPN connection to home. Most of the steps would be the same,
but there is some additional configuration required at the home router -
google for vpn and gre.

Hope this helps.
--
Brian Cryer
www.cryer.co.uk/brian


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