Remote Desktop & IIS

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You can just remove it via add/remove in the reverse of the way you put it
in.

You can also not open the firewall on port 80 (or any alternative port you
might have chosen)--that keeps it from being visible to the Internet, but
doesn't remove the services running on your machine.

I don't have a handy list of references, I'm afraid--I should, and I think
others here have published some articles from Microsoft, and probably from
other places as well--but if you have specific questions--I'm listening.



"Jim Carls" <jimcarls@abernathyassociates.com> wrote in message
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>I am trying to understand and then work through the steps to enable me to
> access my home XP Pro desktop (behind a NAT router) from another XP Pro
> laptop while on trips.
>
> In doing this, I've activated IIS. However, as I learned more, it appears
> that all I need is to get the VPN working over the net and then the
> standard
> Remote Desktop Connection (as opposed to "...Web Connection" ) will work
> and
> leave my computer less exposed. Is this accurate? And if so, what is the
> cleanest way to get rid of IIS?
>
> (Also, has anyone put together (or published) something that really
> addresses the step-by-step "how-to" and all the variations of setting up
> Remote Desktop access across the Internet? I'm figuring this out in such
> a
> piecemeal way that it's hard to be sure if I'm doing only what I need to
> do.)
>
> Thanks!
>
> Jim Carls
>
>