Remote Access from Home to Office

If he's using Windows XP you can use the remote desktop connection. or you could use winvnc. Just open the appropriate ports on the firewall and port forward to his computer. Personally I've setup numerous people with RDC to their desktops. If you use RDP to connect to their server, you can do a search on google for change default rdp listening port and the first link should tell you which registry entry you need to change to set the listening port to another port.

You'd port forward 3389 and 3390 to his internal IP and it should work? Just connect to the external ip address of the router? In that case, what do you do when there's more than 1 computer? Connect to the 1st pc and then use RDP to connect to the other internal pc's from there?

The above should work quite well but just remember that you need to employ the same security on his [b]Home [/b] computer as you do on your network or you could have a massive infection spreading out of control across the Domain in no time at all.

When I do this for Companies that I support I make them supply a NB for the user to take home and log in so that they can access the network but I still have control over the security.

Most Home computers are used by the kids to play games surf the net and are horrendously infected with both Virus and Male Ware/ Spy ware so you need to prevent this from happening.

On the good side according to MS using Remote Desktop should only be something like 4 mouse clicks away, while it makes life easier for the CEO it makes the life of the SYS Admin a nightmare as they are blamed when the CEO logs on and compromises the system from their home computer.

Col

Logmein.com Free is awesome. Your client might like it as a free equivalent to GotoMyPC.

I have tried both VNC and the Microsoft methods. And there are situations where both are very useful.

I use VNC on user PCs on my LAN so that I can share their desktop experience and show them what I am doing on simple things like sorting an Excel column et cetera.

I have a user that loved GotoMyPC and would not use anything else UNTIL I set up an account at LogMein.com for her. It is free for basic service. Come to find out, all she needed was the free service. Saved the company $20+ a month and I have a happy user.