RDPing to Home PC over work proxy.

Festisio · 04-29-2008, 03:19 PM

Evening folks,

I am trying to remote in to my home PC (Running Vista Ultimate) from my work PC (XP SP2)

I am actually the IT person in the company, as such I have a lot of admin rights, not quite yet Domain Admin account access, but that will come soon

Anyhow, I am trying without much success to use the company XP machine to remote desktop into my home PC. It errors out saying it cannot make the connection. I suspect this is because we use a proxy for all web access, and I am guessing that port 3389 is blocked tothe outside world. Not sure really, networking is not really my forte.

I've been reading up on this and people are talking about sshing, tunnelling and putty. This is mostly gobbledy gook to me and I was wondering, before I tried to delve further into this, whether this may be a solution for me?

Has anyone any experience of using remote desktop through a proxy?

I can use various web based remote tools ok, however they are not great so if possible I would love to be able to use remote desktop. Not a fan of VNC either although that seems to not work on Vista anyway.

So, if there's any ssh/putty or just generally knowledgeable folk out there. then please advise.

Thanks

bobbydiaz · 04-30-2008, 07:22 AM

Hey Festiso, You can give this a try. Remote Desktop Web connection.

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/u...p_03may16.mspx

04-29-2008, 03:19 PM	#1 (permalink)
Festisio Registered User Join Date: Apr 2008 Posts: 1 OS: XP SP2	RDPing to Home PC over work proxy. Evening folks, I am trying to remote in to my home PC (Running Vista Ultimate) from my work PC (XP SP2) I am actually the IT person in the company, as such I have a lot of admin rights, not quite yet Domain Admin account access, but that will come soon Anyhow, I am trying without much success to use the company XP machine to remote desktop into my home PC. It errors out saying it cannot make the connection. I suspect this is because we use a proxy for all web access, and I am guessing that port 3389 is blocked tothe outside world. Not sure really, networking is not really my forte. I've been reading up on this and people are talking about sshing, tunnelling and putty. This is mostly gobbledy gook to me and I was wondering, before I tried to delve further into this, whether this may be a solution for me? Has anyone any experience of using remote desktop through a proxy? I can use various web based remote tools ok, however they are not great so if possible I would love to be able to use remote desktop. Not a fan of VNC either although that seems to not work on Vista anyway. So, if there's any ssh/putty or just generally knowledgeable folk out there. then please advise. Thanks

04-30-2008, 07:22 AM	#2 (permalink)
bobbydiaz Registered User Join Date: Sep 2007 Posts: 26 OS: Windows XP/Server 2003	Re: RDPing to Home PC over work proxy. Hey Festiso, You can give this a try. Remote Desktop Web connection. http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/u...p_03may16.mspx