This e-book is a 40-page excerpt of the printed book.
This e-book is a 40-page excerpt of the printed book.
Windows Home Server For Dummies®
Chapter 10: Starting Remote Access & Chapter 17: Breaking into the Server
ISBN: 978-0-470-18592-6
Copyright of Wiley Publishing, Inc. Indianapolis, Indiana Chapter 10 Starting Remote Access
In this Chapter Understanding Remote Access — its benefits and potential problems Convincing Windows Home Server that you really want to access your network from afar Poking holes in recalcitrant routers Poking different holes in pesky Internet service providers’ defenses Getting logged on for the first time
f Windows Home Server’s Remote Access feature works for you the first Itime, you live a charmed life. I’ve set up Remote Access on many net- works, and it seems that no two work the same way.
If it takes you a bit of wrangling (either with your router or with your Internet service provider) to get Remote Access working, take solace in the fact that it’s well worth the hassle. Hang in there. You can do it.
With Remote Access enabled and all the pieces put together properly, you can hop onto a computer anywhere in the world, fire up a Web browser, and . . .