I was using remote desktop connection on the Lan. Now with the no-ip setup
I can do it across the internet - Brad

"beb" <someone@someplace.com> wrote in message
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> Could you say how you were able to Remote into your W2KPro box using
> Terminal services? Thanks.
>
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> "Brad Sayers" <bradsayers@yNOSPAM.com> wrote in message
> news:ewsoInlCGHA.628@TK2MSFTNGP14.phx.gbl...
>>I signed up with no-ip and hey it works perfectly...thanks a bunch for
>>that Gonzalo!
>>
>> There was no documentation from MS that I needed to do that to reach a
>> computer from across the internet. All the documentation was for an
>> internal LAN, even though they indicated internet as well. Was I missing
>> something? What is the purpose of running IIS web services on my home pc
>> then?
>>
>> Brad
>>
>>
>> "Ing. Gonzalo Araújo C." <gonzaloa@online.nospam> wrote in message
>> news:A4FC916B-6779-4CE2-9ED4-68A6A096064C@microsoft.com...
>>> Hello Brad, the solution for you is find a FREE dinamic DNS services,
>>> this
>>> service install a little program in your terminal server, and when the
>>> ip
>>> change, the program tell the dns servers the change .. so you always can
>>> find
>>> your server by usin a dns like: myterminalserver.no-ip.com not matter
>>> what
>>> IP your terminal server have, you always find your server by the dns
>>> name ...
>>>
>>> Don't use %mycomputername% that was an example, when you register with
>>> the
>>> dns service like www.no-ip.com you simply put:
>>>
>>> http://myterminalserver.no-ip.com/tsweb
>>>
>>> Good look!.
>>>
>>> --
>>> Ing. Gonzalo Araújo C
>>> MCP, GCSE, CCNA
>>> SLM Sistemas
>>>
>>>
>>> "Brad Sayers" wrote:
>>>
>>>> I run W2kPro on my host computer and am able to connect using remote
>>>> desktop
>>>> from my LAN fine.
>>>>
>>>> I have my high speed with with Bell Sympatico. I do not have a
>>>> domainname
>>>> but if I know the IP address on the internet side of my router I can
>>>> use
>>>> Remote Desktop Connection with the public IP address and :3389 and
>>>> connect
>>>> fine. Example 66.210.14.159:3389
>>>>
>>>> Question 1: Whenever the host pc at home gets rebooted it gets a new
>>>> public
>>>> IP address. Then a day comes and I need to connect to my pc at home
>>>> and
>>>> it's a new IP address and I have no way of knowing what the new one is.
>>>> If
>>>> someone is home I can call and get it. But if not, is there any way to
>>>> find
>>>> what this IP address is?
>>>>
>>>> I thought that by installing remote desktop web connection on my home
>>>> pc I
>>>> would be able to connect to it from the internet by typing in
>>>> http://%mycomputername%/tsweb as the documentation indicates. However
>>>> this
>>>> has not worked for me. IIS is running and I have enabled forwarding
>>>> for
>>>> port 3389 on the linksys router. I also have port 80 forwarding.
>>>>
>>>> Question 2: regarding remote desktop web connection. Am I missing
>>>> something? I would really like to be able to access my home pc via the
>>>> internet....
>>>>
>>>> TIA, Brad
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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