Hi!,

I need to connect to my remote windows 2000 server machine that's about 300 miles away from me. Ok! how do i go about this? i tried connecting using putty, telnet, CRT etc. I have root access to this server box, and need to beable to see a c:\ prompt so i can install application servers like PHP, Mailenable, spam assassin etc. I just don't know what software i need to do this. Somebody please give me an extra hand.

Thanks!

vnc, tightvnc, various rdp, pcanywhere, go to my pc, telnet, rexec, maped drives, guess about a thousand ways to go.

Go to the control panel, system, remote tab, and check all remote connections. Now, if the server is on a router, forward port number 3389 to the server ip address.

Now you can use remote desktop connection to connect to your server. I would also recomment (if not on a static ip address) using a service such as www.dyndns.org or www.tzo.com to assign a name to the dynamic ip address so when it changes you will be notified. There is also a program that we use called ipmonster that will email you every time the ip address changes on the remote computer so that you can update your information.

Hope that helps

Chris Thomas
Computer Systems Specialists, Inc.