Remote Desktop Connection Help

Hi,
I have a question if someone can answer it for me. I have a laptop
running windows xp and i want to access it from my university computer
to do programming n stuff. I am using my landlords wireless connection.
I tried to use the windows xp remote desktop connection but i think due
to the firewall settings of the router, it wont let me conect to it. I
was wandering if there is a way to connect to my computer without
asking my landlord to change some setting in the router or something.

Thank you guys for ur help and time. :)

You need to know the IP address of the computer you are trying to connect
to. If the computer is behind a router that is using NAT, this is the IP
address of the router. Connections to that IP address on port 3389 (that's
the default; you can change that port) need to go to the computer you are
trying to connect to. So, ask your landlord to forward connections on port
3389 (or, whatever you change it to) to your computer's LAN IP address. For
this to work, your computer will have to have a static IP address on the LAN
(with most consumer routers, just manually set the IP address to something
below the router-assigned range or well into it; i.e., if the router assigns
192.168.1.100->192.168.1.255, using something like 192.168.1.50 or
192.168.1.200 should work). Finally, be sure that your firewall is not
blocking port 3389.

-Yves

<azzamqazi@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> Hi,
> I have a question if someone can answer it for me. I have a laptop
> running windows xp and i want to access it from my university computer
> to do programming n stuff. I am using my landlords wireless connection.
> I tried to use the windows xp remote desktop connection but i think due
> to the firewall settings of the router, it wont let me conect to it. I
> was wandering if there is a way to connect to my computer without
> asking my landlord to change some setting in the router or something.
>
> Thank you guys for ur help and time. :)
>

well i was wandering if there is a way else than asking my landlords to
forward a port. I dont want to ask my landlords because they might not
like it because they are too nosey. Is it possible any other way like
use pcanywhere or something but i suppose i need an open port to use
pcanywhere too right, so in that case does anyone know what i should
do!!. Thanks guys :)

azzamqazi@gmail.com wrote:

> well i was wandering if there is a way else than asking my landlords to
> forward a port. I dont want to ask my landlords because they might not
> like it because they are too nosey. Is it possible any other way like
> use pcanywhere or something but i suppose i need an open port to use
> pcanywhere too right, so in that case does anyone know what i should
> do!!. Thanks guys :)

Yes, but within Windows it's probably too complicated.

Pretty well any router is going to allow traffic on port 22 (SSH). With a
Unix/Linux box, I'd just suggest using SSH and remote X windows, and I'm
pretty sure it could be done with Windows, Cygwin & VNC, but it's going to
take some research. PCanywhere might not be a problem - I don't know it -
but again it's going to take some research.
--
derek