[ale] remote access to Windows box

Warren Myers volcimaster at gmail.com
Fri May 18 15:15:10 EDT 2007


Well, if you setup port forwarding on their router, you can RDP to them
(rdesktop in linux, mstsc in windows) - the standard port is 3389.

More info is available here:
http://ezinearticles.com/?Remote-Desktop-Protocol-(RDP)-Port-Forwarding&id=115181

Cheers
Warren

On 5/18/07, Pete Hardie <pete.hardie at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hello all,
>
> What are good options for remote access to a Windows box (probably XP,
> possibly VIsta) off a broadband account from my home account?  I've
> dragged my parents computing into the 20th century, and now hope to be
> able to actually just fix problems instead of having to intuit them
> from my mom's phone messages.
>
> TIA,
>
>
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