I have WinXP Pro setup at home and can not connect using
remote desktop. My office machine is also winxp pro. I
have forwarded port 3389 on my home machine and have
connected to it using a friends machine. This tells me

I have a use with a laptop who plugs into our corporate network, and also
connects from her remote office using a VPN over a DSL connection.
Seems like the PC has a hard time seeing the corporate network when it's
here. Takes like 20 minutes or so before one can brouse the network.

Hey there,
Had and interesting thing happen to me today.  I set up XP Pro's version of
terminal server on my home computer.  It connects to the internet on
dial-up.  I have a means to find my home computers's IP address through the

I've successfully created a VPN connection from my Windows XP Pro machine to
a Windows 2000 Pro machine, but when I can't access any shared resources
until I go to "Search" >>> "Computers or People" >>> "A Computer on the
Network".

I have 5 computer running through a router with the
correct ports open. My confusion lies in the desktop
connection from the client. What IP address do I type in?
ie.  My DHCP IP configured by my router for one computer

I am trying to setup several (3-5) people to access their work pcs from their homes. I am utilizing xp pro on the work pcs and connect through a linksys 4 port wired/wireless router. I have set the office pcs up to accept incoming remote desktop requests. I am utilizing port 3389 ...

I have a scenario where I need to connect 2 computers over the internet, the host is on DSL, the remote pc is on cable.  The remote PC has a software firewall, the host will most likely have some form of cheap router.
Do I need a VPN to use remote desktop securely, or does remote ...

I have to install a program on my client machine can I
access his computer to do it
we both had Win XP is it possible to me to access his
computer from mine and do all the tasks from my computer

My mother in-law constantly contacts me for assistance. She is very computer
illerate. I have been able to successfully use both remote assistance and
remote desktop connection from my XP Home to her XP Pro PC. However, I had
both PC's with me and needed to know the exact IP address ...

I was wondering if it is possible to just open Web and Terminal Services to one machine on my LAN but to be able to Remote desktop into multiple machines.  Basically I do not want to have too many holes in my firewall and wanted to just open port 80 and port 3389 on one machine ...

I can connect to my office computer from inside the LAN,
but when I lock it and go home.  I VPN in to work and then
try to connect to my office computer with Remote Desktop.  
It initially connects, but never shows me the log on

Where can I go to find information on SMTP, I have my network in place and
working including FTP, Web server and remote desktop. I am running xp pro
w/sp1a. I would like to be able to send emails to individual machines within
my network etc. Thanx

I want to work remotely on a computer. Ihave xp home on
that computer & xp pro on the other computer. Is there a
way to swap operating systems on these 2 computers. The I
want to connect to has xp home.

my cumputer no action courect

Using Windows XP Professional and offline files it appears that when logging
on the files are synchronized properly. When working on a file that is
marked for offline, while the XP computer is online, it appears that the XP
computer is modifying the offline file.