Is it posible to remote desktop using xp home? If so how would I go about it?
Thanks
Is it posible to remote desktop using xp home? If so how would I go about it?
Thanks
With love and many thanks,
Melons
This is what Microsoft has to say:
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/d...dclientdl.mspx
Originally Posted by Microsoft
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With love and many thanks,
Melons
You need to set port forwarding (NAT) settings. The standard vnc port is TCP 5900. So all you need to do is set your pc's ip, the inside and outside port as 5900 (or whatever port you have set vnc to use), and your external ip (or 0.0.0.0 if this is not a static address).
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Vroomy
Portforward.com - see if your router's mentioned in that list - chances are it'll have a step-by-step guide for *VNC. If not, just look at another guide as it'll be very similar (just using the correct port number, as Vroomparrot mentioned (5900)).
Even if you have to rely on another model from the same manufacturer, it'll likely be a very similar process.![]()
Just also found logmein.com whihc is mean meant to be very good and do everything that VNC can, I've checked with work and VMC won't work within the network so I'll have to use this for the time being. I'll let you know how it goes tomorrow.
Log me in is pretty good to be fair, for the sheer ease of use, its a winner![]()
realvnc the best. fastest connection to any pc. i havent seen anything better.
Potentially the only problem with Logmein is that you can't transfer files using the free option - I have to upload them to my webspace and then download them at the other end.
TeamViewer works on the same principle I believe, so if Logmein doesn't work for whatever reason, you might want to give that a go.![]()
I don't know if they've fixed it or not, but vista did have a limitation where one of it's security features stopped other PCs accessing it via VNC. There may be work arounds now, but I'm not sure. On top of that, I can't remember the name of the security feature that's the problem, but I think it basically mean that one of the processes it needs to access isn't run as the right user.
UltraVNC works fine for me on x86 without any workarounds or anything - I don't have the Windows Firewall on though, which may have been the issue?
If I need to transfer any of the files to my work PC I can always email them to myself
Loving logmein though, used it today to start a defrag and backup my files whilst at work.
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