Remote Desktop

To connect from your home computer to your office computer, follow these steps:

1. Click Start, locate MyComputer and right-click on it.
2. Select Properties.
3. Choose the Remote tab.
4. Check off the box in the Remote Desktop box that says Allow users to connect remotely to this computer.
5. At the bottom of the box there will be a Windows Firewall that it says will be configured. Personally, I like to see for myself that it's turned on. For this I go to Control Panel/Windows Firewall. If it's not already turned on, I suggest you do it.
6. Go to the Exceptions tab and select Remote Desktop. This allows the firewall to accept connections coming in for this particular purpose.
7. You will need to know the IP number of your office computer if you want to connect to it. I suggest going to Start/Run and type in command. This will launch a DOS-like window. Type in ipconfig and it will pop up with a list showing the ip number. When you're at home, this is the number you would use when you run Remote Desktop.

Known Problem
I have seen in one situation where the user was not able to connect to their office computer remotely because a new computer that was installed had a video driver that did not allow the connection to occur. If a connection is not possible, check out the video or graphics driver to make sure it's the right one for your computer. In this particular case, it might have had something to do with the Novell client.