How Can I access my Windows XP Machine Remotely?

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If connecting from the internet through a fire wall what would the name of the server device be, that is, do I need to use my DLS's IP or ???
Thanks

It would be the IP *on the internet* that gets to your site ... that probably means the IP assigned to your DSL connection by your ISP. If you are running through a router, then that router will have to open port 3389 and send it to the computer behind the router you want to connect to.

Leo

How can you connect to more than one machine behind the firewall? Can you change the default port (3389) on the 2nd machine? If so, how can you change it on the remote computer in order to still get to computer 1 when you want to.

I know how to manipulate PC Anywhere to do this. Still new to RDesktop.
Thanks,
Jeff

You can have different machines listen on different ports, and then open those ports across the firewall. See this MSKB article: http://ask-leo.com/d-40508b to change the listening port.

Leo

Hi Leo,

Can you help me with this? I'm a little confused. :-)

I'd like to turn my old Windows XP Pro machine into a file server which I would connect to using a notebook with XP Home. Both of these machines would be part of my home LAN and be connected together through a DSL router. I'd like to be able to locate the file server in the basement without any keyboard or monitor attached. My question to you relates to XP's built-in remote access feature. Am I going to be able to establish and close connections from the XP Home notebook to the XP Pro file server without touching the XP Pro machine?

Does this question make sense? I'm just confused by the differences in the remote access capabilities between XP Home and Pro.

Thanks in advance for any help or suggestions,
Charles

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Should work great. In fact you described part of my setup here at home ... right down to "machines in the basement" :-). Pro will let you connect TO it remotely. Home will not. But you can run the remote desktop *client* on Home and connect to Pro. That make sense?

It makes sense! Thanks for your help.

Best regards,
Charles

how i connect my machine to remote machine.my operating system is win 2000 environment.i am also having dial up connection. i have done static ip address configuration also.

Pl give me in detail.

Hey,

Is there any way i can turn on my computer from a different computer in a different house hold? both computeres have win xp home

Thanks,
Branden

Turning it *on*? Supposedly there's a "wake on network activity" kind of thing that some machines support, but I've never seen it used. I think the practical answer right now is probably not.

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