remote desktop and web desktop help

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Assuming you can load the Remote Desktop client on your laptop, ie. see your network administrators
for permission to do this, then, IMHO, the normal Remote Desktop client is easier to use. This
assumes your router at work is correctly forwarding TCP Port 3389 to the private LAN IP of your
desktop.

The web based method means you need IIS running on the desktop or a IIS server in-house and that you
also have TCP Port 80 forwarded through the office router.

The upside of the web based method is you can access your PC, using Remote Desktop, from virtually
any PC with installing the client software. The downside is the added complexity of the IIS server
and its setup and security...

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"Randy" <police@palouse.com> wrote in message news:58e001c42d43$33e91ab0$a501280a@phx.gbl...
> Is there a difference between remote desktop and remote
> web desktop? Which is better? I am trying to start a
> remote connection from my laptop to my office machine
> through the NET. My office machine, the host, is behind
> a router. My ISP helped long enough to do the port
> forwarding on the router, or so they said.

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>-----Original Message-----
>Assuming you can load the Remote Desktop client on your
laptop, ie. see your network administrators
>for permission to do this, then, IMHO, the normal Remote
Desktop client is easier to use. This
>assumes your router at work is correctly forwarding TCP
Port 3389 to the private LAN IP of your
>desktop.
>
>The web based method means you need IIS running on the
desktop or a IIS server in-house and that you
>also have TCP Port 80 forwarded through the office
router.
>
>The upside of the web based method is you can access
your PC, using Remote Desktop, from virtually
>any PC with installing the client software. The downside
is the added complexity of the IIS server
>and its setup and security...
>
>--
> Al Jarvi (MS-MVP Windows Networking)
>
>Please post *ALL* questions and replies to the news
group for the mutual benefit of all of us...
>The MS-MVP Program - http://mvp.support.microsoft.com
>This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and
confers no rights...
>
>"Randy" <police@palouse.com> wrote in message
news:58e001c42d43$33e91ab0$a501280a@phx.gbl...
>> Is there a difference between remote desktop and remote
>> web desktop? Which is better? I am trying to start a
>> remote connection from my laptop to my office machine
>> through the NET. My office machine, the host, is
behind
>> a router. My ISP helped long enough to do the port
>> forwarding on the router, or so they said.
>
>.
>Thanks,

All machines are using XP Pro. I guess I will need to
double check that the port forwarding is working corrctly.