Bob,
Basic guidance:
1) Set up a VPN from your external client to the router.
2) Set up the PC to allow remote desktop connection:
- If a desktop firewall is on, set it to allow a remote desktop connection,
or to allow inbound traffic on port 3389
- Make sure your account is in the local "Remote Desktop Users" group or
Local Administrators of the PC
3) Within the VPN, connect to the name or IP address of the PC with your RDP
client
Variations of this:
- Depending on router, "port forward" 3389 to the PC. This works if you only
want to RDP to that one PC
- If you can give the PC a static NAT external address, then you can just
allow port 3389 to that PC in the router access list. Most people consider
this reasonably secure as the RDP is encrypted, but it is impractical in a
large network.
- You mention the server. You can set up the server as the VPN server using
RRAS, instead of the router but you don't need to do this if your router is
capable of VPN.
Hope that helps,
Anthony,
http://www.airdesk.com
"Bob" <bob1030.RemoveThis@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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>I have a server set up with Windows Server R2 and would like to be able to
>access a networked XP Pro PC remotely. I have never done this before so I
>need some basic guidance. I assume RDP would be the way to go. Does
>anyone know of a step by step guide for doing this or be willing to give me
>some pointers to get me headed in the right direction? The server is
>setup with a static IP of course and I can access the router for the
>network remotely.
>
> Thanks in advance for any suggestions.
>
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