Re: remote desktop question

[Peter Koinnage <peter.koinange () swiftkenya com>]

If you know the ips that will be conencting limit access only top these ip on 
the firewall


K
On Friday 21 October 2005 09:27, cc wrote:
> Dear All,
>
> The company I work with recently required a remote desktop access and
> to keep the budget down, I used a XP Pro system to receive only one
> Remote Desktop user.
>
> Since this requires the opening up of a port on the firewall,
> I'm quite concerned.  I have limited the system to only one or
> two users who can log on.   Since this is my initial foray
> into the remote desktop client (in the past, we used PCAnywhere,
> but it's getting more and more expensive(hard to justify
> purchasing a license for each system).
>
> In what ways can I protect the remote desktop system from
> being broken into?  (Well, aside from shutting it down.)
>
> Any pointers appreciated.
>
> Edmund