How to Use Windows XP Remote Desktop Via The Web
This post was published 1 year 8 months 12 days ago which may make its actuality or expire date not be valid anymore. This site is not responsible for any misunderstanding.There are tons of remote access products out there. Many of them charge for remote access, but Microsoft has kindly (and sorta secretly) allowed remote access for free.
On the host machine (the one you want to connect to remotely), go to Control Panel, System, Remote. Check Allow users to connect remotely to this computer. Any account that you want to have access the machine remotely should have a secure password.
Then you need to install Internet Information Services (IIS) from Add/Remove, Windows Components. Specifically you need to install the Remote Desktop Web Connection. This will make your computer accessible via the web. The URL to use would be:
http://
This is assuming you have proper port forwarding setup for RDC.
On the guest machine you will be presented with a login screen. When asked for the server name, use the IP address or host name of the server.
Check Send Login information
Enter the user name. This must be a valid user account, which is usually what displays when you hit the start button.
It will also ask for a “Domain name”. Leave that blank and click continue
You’ll get a new screen, and a login prompt. Enter your password for your desktop and you’re all set to go.
just a quick note – where it says http:///tsweb that should really be http://your_ip_address/tsweb and just so you dont need to look it up, you need to forward port 3389 on your router to the “host” machine to get the connection to work properly. that will work for both the web interface as well as the RDC client, which btw, runs on both Windows and the Mac.
great tip btw, i didnt know there was a web based client!
Great for bringing this up Dan, and there is a more complete set of instructions here:
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/networking/expert/northrup_03may16.mspx
Marc is correct, if you only type in http:///tsweb you will get http://tsweb.com which is, of course, a parked site… :-)