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You could look into a third party such as connectwise control
https://www.connectwise.com/software/control/free
or one of the many other options such as teamviewer ,logmein, etc,
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You cannot RDP as it does not allow over the internet (and you may also things like NAT etc)
There are other tools like AMMYY or Teamviewer to remotely access your machine over the Internet
http://www.ammyy.com/en/
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Another free one I recommend is UltraViewer. I use it for my clients as I can't afford TeamViewer.
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I think you probably get the point by now, but even IF you had access to all the firewall options your heart desired, and even IF you had a static public IP address, this would still be somewhat of a challenge to setup, but given that you don’t (and respectively also probably don’t), the short answer is that RDP is not an option for you. As mentioned though, there are other options. I’ve personally used Teamviewer and as long as you agree to and abide by the terms of use, your free account will do what I think you’re trying to achieve and that program can tunnel through damn near anything.
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Go teamviewer free.
Work may not appreciate you making connections to your home computer by the way.
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Nope. Just don’t do this the way you’re trying to do it. It’s a massive security issue. You really need to set up some kind of gateway capable of a vpn in your apartment. Sophos offers their enterprise firewalls free to home users. Once you have that set up you can rdp once you’re already connected to the vpn. You should find out what ports you have available first.
Let me know if you need help, but please don’t just have rdp open to the world.
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RDP is impossible without access to the complex's gateway and port forwarding to your PC's IP. I wouldn't do it anyway as others mentioned it's a big security risk. Use TeamViewer, Anydesk and a number of other "free for non-commercial use" remote access tools
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Anydesk in my opinion could feet your needs by far
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I wouldn't expose RDP to the internet anyway. VPN? other remote solutions? https://www.nomachine.com/download
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Public WIFI often has guest isolation for security, so two clients can't talk to eachother.
Best bet to use RDP is to get a wireless bridge, set it up to connect to the public wifi, and then get a wireless router/accesspoint and connect it to that bridge, it's a backwards and weird way of doing it, but it would provide you with your own local wifi network that doesn't have the internal limitations of the main wifi
(Can't guarantee that it would work though)
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You cannot do any port forwarding unless you access the complex' router to do it. Besides, you are opening your computer to the world if you get successful in doing so. Just go with teamviewer. Works the same way. :)
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you have to nat said IP:PORT from outside public to inside local. That's it, and you'll need access to the router/bridge/firewall
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Use a VPN on that WiFi network then another remote desktop type of tool to get to your work desktop. I've had success using Chrome remote desktop before to get to my work computer. And it's free.
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RDP, exposed to the Internet? <Shudders>
Given that you don't have access to the router, don't have a static external IP (probably), and a number of other factors, no, you cannot use RDP. Even if you could, you definitely don't want to!
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Since it's a laptop, take it with you if you can't get remote access due to the public WiFi at your apartment...
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Turning on RDP and exposing it to the Internet is pretty much akin to setting your PC on fire. Luckily your apartment complex has a firewall blocking that. Check out one of the many above remote access solutions and you'll be good.
Have you considered taking your laptop to work?
If one of my users was trying to remote in to a personal off-site computer from work, he would be fired for grossly violating our security policies. Do check with your IT department so you don't run afoul of company policies.
Creating security holes like this can take down companies.
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Since you've already been given a solution, may I ask why you need to RDP into your home PC from work? Also, it is a laptop, so if you have a legitimate work reason for RDPing into it, why not just take it work with you? Something doesn't add up here.
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Going to give AnyDesk a shot. Thanks.
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I use Real VNC to log in to my server from work, I trust it to be secure for all involved devices.
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Please give Splashtop Business Access a free test drive. Splashtop supports multi-factor authentication, device auth, and other security measures for seamless secure access into any network. It's cost effective starting at $5 per month ($60 per year) for accessing up to 10 devices. Splashtop is also well known for its performance... capable of streaming even video and remote 3D apps.... I'm here to answer any question.
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Run a firewall like SOPHOS that allows multiple types of VPN access including an HTML5 portal to open RDP from your firewall.
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Most free wireless system block assorted ports. I have seen hotels that advertise free WiFi block VPN access unless you pay through the nose for it.
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You really aren't going to be able to do what you want with RDP. I would look at another solution like LogMeIn which can work over multiple networks.
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+1 for Teamviewer free edition.
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I'm not sure I'd use that apartment wifi system, but more to the point of your post, RDP requires direct access and no NAT. As others have said, look into TeamViewer or similar products.
To my original point, whenever you're on a public wifi, it is wise to establish a VPN connection somewhere so that your traffic is encrypted. This has nothing to do with accessing your system from work. I'd be very leery about that public wifi in your apartment complex. The landlord (or whoever runs it) can act as a man-in-the-middle and watch traffic from everyone's computers, neighbors can hack neighbors, and the wifi will likely become known to friends of neighbors or even evicted tenants with a score to settle. Your connection to HTTPS:// websites will still be encrypted, but what you're browsing and emails may not be.
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If you really want to use RDP, like I do, go setup Zero Tier as a "VPN" and use that. I use it to reach back to my workstation and my home desktop when I'm out and about. It is secure, and you just punch in the assigned IP of the machine if you do it on a per machine basis. I have it attached to my OpenWRT box so I just type in the internal IP's for the home devices, but the Workstation I use it's Zero Tier IP.I recommend this because while it may possibly be a little slower, it allows access as if you are at home, with less overhead and no need for a dedicated server to run OpenVPN or paying for a server.
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Don't forward remote desktop port on your router. Doing this will cause your system to be infected with Ransomware. VPN is the best solution for you.
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As mentioned above, you better option is to use a remote access application like Team Viewer. There are multiple apps that work just like Team Viewer.
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Please avoid RDP. You don't have access to the router / firewall to map ports and other config requirements.
You can use Logmein or Anydesk (free for personal use).
You can setup any of this 2 options in less than 10 minutes and both works like a charm.
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For those wondering --
I gave AnyDesk a go. I don't recommend using this because apparently they restrict the usage of certain hypervisor apps (Hyper-V in my case) and also the display is very low quality. TeamViewer has proven to be the better option so far.
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DZee wrote:
I'm not sure I'd use that apartment wifi system, but more to the point of your post, RDP requires direct access and no NAT. As others have said, look into TeamViewer or similar products.
To my original point, whenever you're on a public wifi, it is wise to establish a VPN connection somewhere so that your traffic is encrypted. This has nothing to do with accessing your system from work. I'd be very leery about that public wifi in your apartment complex. The landlord (or whoever runs it) can act as a man-in-the-middle and watch traffic from everyone's computers, neighbors can hack neighbors, and the wifi will likely become known to friends of neighbors or even evicted tenants with a score to settle. Your connection to HTTPS:// websites will still be encrypted, but what you're browsing and emails may not be.
I second and third and fourth the need for VPN
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hotsauceonerrything wrote:
For those wondering --
I gave AnyDesk a go. I don't recommend using this because apparently they restrict the usage of certain hypervisor apps (Hyper-V in my case) and also the display is very low quality. TeamViewer has proven to be the better option so far.
I use TeamViewer as well. It's solid, reliable, remotely upgradeable, and entirely free for personal use. My only (slight) beef is that despite using it strictly for personal use like connecting into my parents computers to help them out, or my home systems from my phone, I have gotten cut off twice because they "detected" commercial use. I'm not sure what the criteria are, but I do have static IPs at my home so maybe that's it. Nevertheless, they give you an email you can write to as recourse, and both times they've turned it back on without any fuss after I provided an explanation of what I was doing.
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If one of my users was trying to remote in to a personal off-site computer from work, he would be fired for grossly violating our security policies. Do check with your IT department so you don't run afoul of company policies
I use RemoteUtilities to do this. Free for up to 10 machines and it works great.
I checked with our IT department before doing this. Turns out I'm the IT department but there was still a hell of a row over it (we made up but I still think he's a pr!ck).
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Not sure what they consider commercial use. Have you been connected to multiple systens at once? Could be a trigger.
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hotsauceonerrything wrote:
Not sure what they consider commercial use. Have you been connected to multiple systens at once? Could be a trigger.
Commercial use is anything to do with business. If you're using a product to solve a problem that you are getting paid for, that's commercial use. If you're just using it for personal reasons, that is home use.
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RowanAitken wrote:
I checked with our IT department before doing this. Turns out I'm the IT department but there was still a hell of a row over it (we made up but I still think he's a pr!ck).
I imagine the conversation went something akin to Gollum fighting with himself over his 'Precious'... ;)
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You're going to need 3 free software-based components in order to be able to do what you want:
1) OpenVPN Server - either the installable or, what I would recommend and use for my own setup, the VM appliance.2) A DynDNS account that gives you an actual web address. Look into their free options.3) The DynDNS dynamic IP updater. Download it at Dyn after creating an account.
I would also suggest getting your own router in order to keep everyone in your apartment building out of your own network, like, yesterday.
For my setup I have a little HP Proliant MicroServer running Windows Server 2012 R2. I run an OpenVPN VM Appliance in Hyper-V and the DynDNS updater on the host. Your DynDNS account gives you a relatively easily remembered web address that points to- and masks- your home IP. Any time your IP changes, the updater phones home to tell Dyn's servers to point toward the new address. So, you can have an address like hotsauceonerrything.dyndns.org or hotsauceonerrything.chickenkiller.org or whatever, and you simply point OpenVPN's client to that address to be able to get into your home network. THEN you can RDP into your machine at home, or any other one.You're still probably going to have some pretty gnarly NAT issues, but this will at least give you the ways and means if you can find an open port through the apartment's firewall.
Good luck!
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