How can I connect using remote desktop to someone that has XP Home if I have XP Pro?

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I am trying to have access to my computer at home from work. I'm trying to get access to my music/video files and be able to listen to them on my laptop without having to d/l them. Is this possible ?

Thank you,
Justin Moore

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In your shoes, I'd probably try using something like Hamachi to set up a
VPN between home and work machines.

http://ask-leo.com/hamachi_a_simple_vpn.html

Leo
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how can i connect remote desktop from a library pc? it is set up so i cannot install programs and it will not run .exe files. logmein.com takes ages to load up and fails to connect 95% of the time on the library computers (fine on mine). i remember reading about setting up a webpage to go to that will connect to the remote pc. is this possible?

thanks, jamie

Hey everyone, having Hamachi running on an XP Home machine will not solve the problem. XP Home doesn't have the necesary terminal services server software in order to remote desktop to the machine even if it hooked up to a VPN. There are other freeware programs, though, that will allow you to remote desktop to an XP Home machine via a VPN.

try ultravnc.com for free remote desktop like software

In response to Jamie and connecting from a library computer: The following link describes how to configure Remote Desktop Web Connection on XP Pro/Media Center:

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/networking/expert/northrup_03may16.mspx

All you have to do is: go to c:\windows\system32 and double clieck mstsc.exe. Search for it and you will find it. Nothing else!

There is a program unlike no program b4. It will create a network between 16 computers (VPN), where loctaion is not a question. So you dont have to configure your firewalls, or routers. And you can play games over the network. No more battlenet. or other servers. I suggest all of you look into it www.hamachi.cc they where there own company. LogMeIn took them over about 2 months ago

Hamachi running on an XP Home machine will not solve the problem. XP Home doesn't have the necesary terminal services server software in order to remote desktop to the machine even if it hooked up to a VPN. There are other freeware programs, though, that will allow you to remote desktop to an XP Home machine via a VPN.

Hi,
I was able to remote connect to my office machine sucessfully by configuring the router etc. I have no problems in this. Sometimes, I may require to connect another machine in my same office from my home, which I was unable to do. My Question is, how to connect one of the 2 machines which were under a same router.

Please help

@Babu, you can forward different ports on your router to the RDP port on seperate clients.

A example is simple. Let's say the machine you can currently connect to is pc1, and want to connect to pc2 at work. So you go into your router config options, and forward 3390 to pc2's local ip. Then you can forward 3391 to pc3, and so on.

P.S. 3389 is the assumed port for RDP protocol, and to connect to a different port you will need to enter in the port manually in the "compter" prompt for the mtsc client, example: my.ip.is.this:3390

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