I have a few questions about OC multi-PC management.
First, I am an OC who has OneCare installed on 3PC (1 home desktop (Vista Ultimate), and 2 office desktops (XP Home and XP Pro, not networked together). How do you set OC so that you can remote desktop (from non-OC XP laptop to one of the office computers (XP Pro) without having to turn off the OC firewall? I found previous instructions for 2.0 Beta on these social forums, but those didn't appear to work. I may not have done it right. I can only use remote desktop with the firewall off right now. Can you create a firewall exception rule? Or, how to you configure the port/protocol to work RDC (remote desktop connection) with OC on? RDC connection usually from non-OC laptop to XP Pro office desktop now with OC. Sometimes RDC through Vista desktop and office desktop before OC was installed
Second, how do you set up up printer sharing through RDC between laptop and XP Pro desktop so that documents print to the office computer. This worked prior to installing OC on office computer with XP Pro
You may need to allow Remote Desktop for Internet. It is one of the preconfigured selections on the Ports and protocols tab for the advanced firewall settings. There are two Remote Desktop choices. If only the subnet choice is selected and you can't connect, try the second setting for Internet. Note that your router would have to be configured to forward the RDP port to a specific IP address internally for you to connect from the Internet, so this settings won't impact your security. If the PC is connected to a public network, there is minimal risk since a user still needs to know the ID/PW to connect to the PC. -steveMicrosoft MVP Windows Live / Windows Live OneCare & Live Mesh Forum Moderator
You may need to allow Remote Desktop for Internet. It is one of the preconfigured selections on the Ports and protocols tab for the advanced firewall settings. There are two Remote Desktop choices. If only the subnet choice is selected and you can't connect, try the second setting for Internet. Note that your router would have to be configured to forward the RDP port to a specific IP address internally for you to connect from the Internet, so this settings won't impact your security. If the PC is connected to a public network, there is minimal risk since a user still needs to know the ID/PW to connect to the PC. -steveMicrosoft MVP Windows Live / Windows Live OneCare & Live Mesh Forum Moderator
I'll add that I use Remote Desktop successfully with this setting on a variety of machines using OneCare. I don't, however, use the printer functionality, so can't comment on how that may differ. Once the connection is established, as long as you've set the RD session options for remote printing, it should work. -steveMicrosoft MVP Windows Live / Windows Live OneCare & Live Mesh Forum Moderator
Note that your router would have to be configured to forward the RDP port to a specific IP address internally for you to connect from the Internet, so this settings won't impact your security.
That will depend on your router, SEE. On my routers, I have an IP address that I connect to the router administrative interface. In the advanced configuration is a section for port forwarding. I can manually add specific ports to forward to a fixed IP address within my LAN. Some routers have "rules" set up, so you would simply select Remote Desktop and tell it which PC to forward to. -steveMicrosoft MVP Windows Live / Windows Live OneCare & Live Mesh Forum Moderator
