How to Enable Remote Desktop Web Connections in Windows XP Prof.

Contributor Icon Contributed by Jimmy Selix  
Tag Icon Tagged: Windows networking  

This recipe explains how to enable/install the Remote Desktop Web Connection add-in. With a remote desktop web connection, you can access your PC from any pc that has Internet Explorer 5.0 or higher. Very handy for those of use with pocket pc’s or pda’s or who want to access their pc from a coffeeshop (ie macs).


Requirements:
Windows XP Professional
Always on / High speed internet connection

The first thing we need to do is to install the remote desktop web connection add-in (if not already installed).

Go to Start Menu > Control Panel > Add/Remove Programs

Then click the Add/Remove Windows Components Tab. On the Windows Components Wizard, Click the Internet Information Services option, and then click Details.

A new window will popup, go to the World Wide Web Services option, click it and then Click Details.

On this new windows, click the Remote Desktop Web Connection. Windows will automatically select the other required components to run this. THen click OK on all of the windows and then click Next on the Windows Components Wizard.

Let it finish installing.

Make sure to open up the remote desktop web connection port (if you use a firewall) and also be sure that in Windows XP that your user is allowed Remote Connections (right click My Computer > Properties > Remote > Remote Desktop : Allow Users to connect remotely to this computer )
and has a password associated with his/her login name.

To access your pc via a browser, type in your home pc’s ip and add /tsweb
-for example: http://222.22.334.2/tsweb

You should be able to access your pc from any pc using IE5 or higher, no remote desktop client required!

 

7 Comments -


  1. Liam said on December 30, 2008

    Good article – Thanks

  2. Anonymous said on May 21, 2009

    PCMD – Make sure the user has local admin rights. I have come across the same problem as you before and that was the cause for it.

    I remember showing a staff of mine this, he thought it was some sort of hack!

  3. Anonymous said on December 26, 2009

    Thanks sir for sharing this basic info, welldone

  4. Curmudgeonly Ad Guy said on February 24, 2010

    Enabling them is one thing…actually making a connection is another. For all of those who are as frustrated as me with the feeble MS offering, I would suggest going thrid party. Proxy Networks makes a quality remote desktop software product, and they have a free demo that I guarantee will work, which is something I am sure not even MS would claim for their native offering.

  5. Anonymous said on April 27, 2010

    Hi can we enable rdp remotely if we r able to ping the ip address of the pc.

  6. Narenshankar said on July 7, 2010

    If i do this i get the error like this “You are not authorized to view this page”.

  7. Imstan said on August 9, 2011

     Yes, that is what happened to me too… Not authorized… well, heck I bought this computer… I’m the only one that uses… who else would be authorized???

 

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