I finally got rdp to work, I had a firewall issue in McAfee's program.
Thanks Al Sooner for your help...

Now the question that I have is... I would like to access all of the
machines on my home network, from the office.

3 different machines on the same network, plus a wireless printer. I would
like to access these pc's so if my kids have a problem I could see or
install the programs for their computers as an administrator.

I work a 24 hr shift, and sometimes they can not wait till I get home.

Is this at all possible?? I mean if I have them place the CD in the drive
at home, and I install it from work over the Remote Desktop??? Since I have
full control of the PC.

Thanks, Jamie

You can access multiple PC's, with Remote Desktop, that are behind a
firewall/NAT/router by a variety of options including opening multiple ports
on the firewall/NAT/router, setting up a VPN or using Secure Shell (SSH).
Personally I use a SSH solution to access multiple PC's on my home LAN.

SSH help...aka "How-I-Did-It"...

http://theillustratednetwork.mvps.or...esktopSSH.html
http://theillustratednetwork.mvps.or...publicKey.html

Free SSL VPN solutions. I have used the SSL-Explorer program and that works
well. Read the Reference/Users Guide and the Quick Start Guide closely if
you choose this method.

http://openvpn.net/
http://3sp.com/showSslExplorer.do

How to setup a XP PPTP VPN host and client.

http://www.onecomputerguy.com/networ...vpn_server.htm
http://www.onecomputerguy.com/networking/xp_vpn.htm

Multiple port method.

http://theillustratednetwork.mvps.or...ple_PC_RD.html

Yes, as long as you can access the PC using Remote Desktop you can install
software on their PC just like you are sitting in front of the PC
physically.

Good luck...

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"Jamie Zimmerman" <ctfd218@comcast.net> wrote in message
news:%232$DgKg9FHAipl.3760@TK2MSFTNGP14.phx.gbl...
>I finally got rdp to work, I had a firewall issue in McAfee's program.
>Thanks Al Sooner for your help...
>
> Now the question that I have is... I would like to access all of the
> machines on my home network, from the office.
>
> 3 different machines on the same network, plus a wireless printer. I would
> like to access these pc's so if my kids have a problem I could see or
> install the programs for their computers as an administrator.
>
> I work a 24 hr shift, and sometimes they can not wait till I get home.
>
> Is this at all possible?? I mean if I have them place the CD in the drive
> at home, and I install it from work over the Remote Desktop??? Since I
> have full control of the PC.
>
> Thanks, Jamie
>
>

It is possible to connect to all of your machines but you will have to do
some work to make it happen.

Option #1 change the port numbers for the other two machines in your network
that Remote Desktop uses. To do this you need to be familiar with registry
editting. If you have not done this before than I would not recommend you go
this route. If you do a search on Microsoft for RDP Ports you should be able
to find the info on how to do this.

Option #2 is to download and install UltraVNC, TightVNC, WinVNC, and run an
instance of the remote server software on each machine. Once you have done
this remotely connect to your original machine and then use VNC Viewer which
comes with the download to connect to one of the other machines from the
machine you are currently connected to. It is like hopscotching around but it
works fine and you can transfer files using UltraVNC as well. There is a
Video Hook driver that you should also install to speed up the connection on
the LAN.