Q: Hi,
Im searching for a network situation for the next setup. I go to two XP systems (a house, have the other pro) that connect to the net via dial-up. I basically want the network of the two when I feel like it. The two computers are different countries, so start calling is probably not feasible given the long distance calls. So, I wonder if anyone has ideas for networking between the two computers via a dial-up connection. Is it possible to dial-up connections in Windows XP to receive? How would I do that? How do you network two XP systems via the Internet? Can you manage a system from an XP Pro XP Home system? Would a 3rd party software used in connecting these two systems?
Let me know all the details I can add.
Thanks
Re:Many of them are free in the hopes that you'll buy a premium account just like the free email services and the like, except its probably alot less load for the dns.
Re:Originally posted by: guy
Thanks for the help guys! Good stuff.
Is there anything shady about these dns providers? Why is it free? I realize services such as email are free and usually not shady but I'm just curious.
Thanks again
I've seen these things quite cheap, but not free. They probably just bust out some advertising popups when anyone tries to hit port 80 at your address or something.
Re:Thanks for the help guys! Good stuff.
Is there anything shady about these dns providers? Why is it free? I realize services such as email are free and usually not shady but I'm just curious.
Thanks again
Re:There are lots of dynamic dns services, I've used www.no-ip.com before. Register and run an app in the tray and everytime your IP changes it will update infohawk1.no-ip.com to your current IP address. Then just give your VPN software the domains to work with. It may not always be 100% accurate but it should be reasonably close. If not spend a couple bucks and get your ISP to assign you a static IP
Re:Let's say I do a VPN connection. How will I know what IP address to connect to? Like guy said, the ip addresses change each time.
Is there a way to get my system to note it's ip and then email or something?
Re:If you have the computers directly dial each other you're going to have to pay long distance. Just have both of them dial locally into the internet and stay there. Then use VPN to setup a tunnel between them. It's all built into xp & 2000 so you don't need to buy any 3rd party stuff. Check the helpfiles on VPN it's pretty easy to do.
You can setup one of them to be a dial-up server though if you want to do that.
Re:Wow, that's a good one…um…..
The problem is that with dialup, you get a different IP addy every time you connect; that makes it difficult to do anything like FTP.
Interesting question. Bump for you.
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