cobie_x

Calling all Nerds and Techies: RE:- REMOTE WEB DESKTOP I have installed all the bits to allow me to connect from a remote computer through various firewalls/routers/whatever and then onto my Win 2003 IIS box sitting on my home LAN. However when I type in the name/IP address of a machine to connect to on the "Remote Desktop Web Connection internet page", I get the following error. "The specified remote machine cannot be found. Verify that you have typed the correct computer name or IP address, and then try connecting again." <I dont wanna have to set up a VPN> So what's happening? How can I resolve this annoying fault. Cobie ..by the way that "nerds and techies" comment was just a gag!

It dosnt really matter where you have the DHCP service loaded. I actually have my firewall as my DHCP server. Its always best to have it on a macine that is not likely to be touched by a user. The more hands that touch a machine the more likly it is that it will shut down for some reason and the service will be lost.

You seem to have it all figured out already. The little I can add is as follows: 1)Get a router modem, the performance is better and net access for the rest of the machines isnt dependent on the server being up. 2)Get a Firewall <netgear FVS318> you will cry buckets in the future if you dont. 3)Put your printer on the server. It ill diminish the load on your workstation (okay its not much of a load but its something) 4)As far as you are concerned you cant network a scanne, they need to be bound to a machine (...there are ways around it but they are fiddly and messy options) 5)Load DHCP on your win2k server The rest of my words might sound flippant but thats not intetional I assure you.. If you want active dirs just set it up. Do you need step by step instructions? If you want a 5th machine, just plug it into your switch !! Its a s easy as pei (I mean pie !) Map a drive to your shared folders if you want them, thats probably the easiest thing to do !!