If I want to connect to a remote computer over the Internet, behind a router, what shall I
use ?
Computer name only ? ISP-provided IP address ? Internal LAN IP address (192.168.0...... )
?

I have Vista Home on my laptop and XP sp2 Home on my desktop and wireless
router.  Is it possible to control my desktop from my laptop...???  Thank
you...

After establishing a Remote Connection to my desktop, all works fine with the exception of
the desktop screen, which is blue and has all the icons, but no picture.
Any ideas as to why ?
Thanks in advance.

I have a problem which has been driving me insane.
For a long time with no problems, I have been using Remote Desktop to
connect to my machine at work (Windows Server 2003) from my old
Windows 2000 box at home.  I have been using SSH to tunnel the

At home I have a desktop and a laptop, connected through a router in a wireless LAN. I
would like to use "Desktop Remote Connection", to be able to work remotely  from one PC on
the other. Can it be done ? Which computer names shall I use ? Is it enough to enable RDC
on both ? ...

Can I use computer as a workstation, while somebody logs in remotely how
would I do this without being logged out when they connect?
have 2 user accounts?

I'm on WinXP, am using the WinXP connection to pptp to another
network. It has been working fine. Now when trying to connect, all i
get is the message "Verifying username and password", and it just
hangs for about a minute, then another message comes up saying it

I use mstsc to connect from my laptop back to my office desktop.  A recent
change in our desktop image is now causing the desktop session to terminate
all processes left running 15 minutes after I disconnect.  My intent is to
keep those processes running so I can reconnect to ...

I've got a weird one.  Local network, 2 machines running XP Pro SP2.
Up until a few days ago, regularly used remote desktop to connect from
one to the other.
Now, suddenly, the connection fails.  If I try to connect, after I

I'm trying to use remote desktop with windows workgroup but my account is not
avaliable in remote desktop user account.   I have a home work group setup
between a XP and Vista machine.  When I try to add my Vista user account to
remote access on the xp machine the work group is ...

I want to remote control my computer at home while i am outside and working,
how can I set up the two computer ?I hope that one expert can give me good
guide or links show  me the best way to solve this problem.
Thanks in advance.