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Can someone help me with Remote Desktop?
I am a college student who will be leaving on Saturday. I want to know how to set up my desktop at home to connect from my college internet.
My home desktop is running Windows XP Pro
My laptop at school is running Windows 7 Pro
I have tried a few tutorials online but when i try to connect, it kicks it back at me
2 Answers
- tknight_69Lv 41 decade agoFavorite Answer
If the school laptop utilizes the school internet, you're probably S.O.L.. If the school laptop runs your privately owned internet connection then you'll have to set up both for RDP, the ease of which will depend on your knowledge of computer networking.
- BigELv 71 decade ago
You will need to port forward 3389 tcp on your home router. Your home machine will need rdestktop enabled and allow port 3389 inbound on the firewall. First try it on the home LAN from your laptop to your desktop. After you get that to work, maybe you can ask a friend to try or go to another wireless access point. The problem is your ROUTER can change IP. If your router stays up, most likely will keep the same IP. However, if it is down for any time, the IP will change. Another way is to enable DYDNS, such that your router updates a DYDNS serice, so you connect to a "fake" name.
Your college will probably allow port 3389 outbound, most likely.
Good luck, it should work but the more work you do now the better off you will be.
