Remote Desktop

[Turkish]

Hiya,

I need to setup Remote Desktop on my mom's computer so when I go back to where I live, I can connect to her computer when needed and "fix things". My problem is, my ADSL modem and router are seperate... so I figure I need to do play with settings on both. Anyone wanna help me through this?

Thanks.

Modem is Airties, router is Linksys.

 

[mcmilljb]

If she has XP Home or Vista Home (Basic or Premium), then you can't connect to her computer through Remote Desktop. You can still do Remote Assistance though.

 

[RebateMonger]

It'd be easier to just use LogMeIn Free. No need to configure Port Forwarding in the router.
http://logmein.com

 

[Turkish]

She has Win XP Pro... I'll check out logmein, thanks.

 

[stuman74]

It doesn't work for XP Home, but doesn't it work with XP Pro and XP MCE 2005?

 

[ChAoTiCpInOy]

It would be easier to just use Logmein. No limitations on OS and it traverses NAT, so you don't have to figure out any settings for your router.

 

[drebo]

Crossloop is another good one for remote assistance.

 

[robmurphy]

I use RDP (remote desktop) to access my main PC when I'm away from home.

For security I changed the default port used to a random one, and changed my password to a very long one. You have to edit registry to change the port used for RDP

The router used also has ping disabled so if some one tries to ping my router from the WAN side it does not get a response.

I have cable internet and use a netgear WGT624. I setup port forwarding so that the port I had chosen was forwarded to the main PC.

When connecting to the PC from the internet I use the following address format:
<WAN IP address>:<port number>

I have been using this for some time without problems. I used RDP rather than some of the other solutions as I used RDP on the home network and at work.

Rob

 

[TheKub]

Logmein is good. I use Hamachi + VNC to help out friends and family.

 

[DrGreen2007]

Team Viewer also works well, and is free

 

[SoulAssassin]

Originally posted by: robmurphy
I use RDP (remote desktop) to access my main PC when I'm away from home.

For security I changed the default port used to a random one, and changed my password to a very long one. You have to edit registry to change the port used for RDP

The router used also has ping disabled so if some one tries to ping my router from the WAN side it does not get a response.

I have cable internet and use a netgear WGT624. I setup port forwarding so that the port I had chosen was forwarded to the main PC.

When connecting to the PC from the internet I use the following address format:
<WAN IP address>:<port number>

I have been using this for some time without problems. I used RDP rather than some of the other solutions as I used RDP on the home network and at work.

Rob

Port scanners can still identify the RDP response so changing the port does little to stop someone with intent.

 

[robmurphy]

I understood some one scanning every port could indentify the port as open, but they would have to port scan every IP to find it. Once found they have know a user ID and password that works.

Before enabling the RDP, and after opening up the port, I monitored all the network traffic to the PC. Not one attempt was made to access the port used. The network monitoring is still done. If I ever get around to setting up the switch I have with port mirroring then that will be running 24/7, and keep logs for a week or 2

Any form of home remote login without a VPN is going to be a security risk. I'm not sure how much more/less secure the other forms of remote access are.

I honestly think some of the trojans ect are more of a risk than the RDP. I've picked up 1 or 2 nasties that the anti malware software did detect not just by running an ethernet trace.

Rob.

 

[stuman74]

I just signed up for the LogMeIn free. Works pretty well, but only in IE. Great product for free! Is there a catch that I am missing?

 

[mcmilljb]

Originally posted by: stuman74
I just signed up for the LogMeIn free. Works pretty well, but only in IE. Great product for free! Is there a catch that I am missing?

I believe the limited features involve sound and file transfers. Easy to get around the file transfer limitation.