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