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Title: Accessing PC'S on my network remotely
Post by: Matt on February 12, 2006, 11:03:32 AM

I am looking for a simple solution so that I can access any of the 5 Windows XP computers on my sme sever network from a remote location for maintenance purposes mainly.  In other words is it possible to take control of a windows machine through my server and what do I need to do to make that happen.

Any ideas solutions would be very welcome.  

Cheers Matt

Title: Accessing PC'S on my network remotely
Post by: JonB on February 12, 2006, 02:19:56 PM

Assuming all the PC's are XP Pro then just use Remote Desktop. You can forward the ports through the SME Server to the PC's

i.e forward port 3390 -> PC A Port 3389
                        3391 -> PC B Port 3389

and so on.

You can then access your LAN PC's remotely with the RDP client by using the url domain.com:3390 for PC A, domain.com:3391 for PC B etc or you can use IP address xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:3391.

To make it even more secure you can always set up SSH tunnels and RDP via the tunnels.

Jon

Title: Accessing PC'S on my network remotely
Post by: smeghead on February 13, 2006, 04:24:39 AM

.. or VPN into the SME box so that once logged in the internal network is exposed and you can RDP into any w/s as usual.

HTH

Title: Accessing PC'S on my network remotely
Post by: woyzeck on February 13, 2006, 04:37:58 AM

If you are not using XP Professional  try Tight VNC (http://www.tightvnc.com), but make sure that you are using SSH or  a VPN tunnel as it is not encrypted.  This is a nice alternative if your are using XP Home and do not want to use a third party site like logmein.com.