We have 2 desktops and 2 laptops at home. One of the laptops (XP) connects to our router (the dsl company gave us a type of router that does wirless as well as 4 ethernet ports). The other 3 by ethernet and are Windows 2000.
I want to be able to do following:
remote desktop from one machine to other
Backup all from one place
What do I need to do?
We have ZoneAlarm and Norton Antivirus on all but disabled Windows firewall. (I am able to connect for sharing disk/folder access through ‘Map network drive’ as long as I have the IP registered in zonealarm and use administrator id/pwd but I am trying to do more)
Re: How to set up remote access within a home network?
Right Click on My Computer on WinXP machine–>go to Properties–> go to ‘Remote’ Tab and then allow Remote Desktop Access. Make sure to go to Select Remote users and select the user name to add.
For Windows 2000 computers, install VNC, its free
For testing purposes, disable firewalls and try remoting in. If it works, turn on the firewalls and then check to see if it works. This will tell you whether you need to tweak the firewalls or not.
Re: How to set up remote access within a home network?
since u r on internal ip addressing, UNLESS you have open ports on that router of yours, MAPPING into the individual pcs (for god knows WHATEVER reasons you set'em up as, msn/yahoo/videoconferencing) u dont need to worry about it ..
ACROSS networks, doing vnc? hmmmm ..last time i checked AT&T version of vnc was using STRAIGHT communication between A&B, no encryption or anything..
but LOT has changed since 'last time' .. that was 6+yrs ago
Re: How to set up remote access within a home network?
If its within LAN, then use VNC even if u are using XP. I have tried RealVNC even tried Enterprise version from Pakistan connecting to server in North America & it works great.
Re: How to set up remote access within a home network?
RealVNC worked out and does let me access remote desktops within my home. Thanks everyone for the suggestions.
ZomeAlarms did not create any problem. When I installed RealVNC (I clicked bot server and viewer options, not knowing what is what) zonealrms asked me that RealVNC is trying to act as server and is it ok? I said yes. I hope that does not create a security hole?
What do the 2 options mean? I am thinking it means server is to let someone else connect to this machine and viewer is for this machine to connect to someone else - right?
Re: How to set up remote access within a home network?
u r fine.
ur thinking is right too
hence, if u don't want machine A to be remotely connected by other machines, then don't install the server part of vnc on machine A.. OR just say 'no' when zonealarm asks u that question.
but for simplicity's sake, don't change anything.. waise bhi, tumhe koi attack nahi karey ga... post your IP here.. i will add to the safe list... :)
Re: How to set up remote access within a home network?
TofiBaba, aapki sohbat mein reh kar to yehi hona tha..
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