Ms remote assistant Pc#

In doing so, the request appears to have come from the networkвЂ™s one legitimate IP address. When someone needs to access the Internet, the request is sent to the NAT firewall, and it makes the request to the Web site on behalf of the user. NAT allows you to create an entire network of bogus IP addresses. Since your typical ISP only assigns you a single IP address, if you have more than one computer, then you will need multiple IP addresses. However, this particular friend was using a Network Address Translation (NAT) firewall. Remote assistance is a handy feature, and I have used it on more than one occasion to help out other friends. To save myself some time and wear and tear on my car, I introduced my friend to Windows XPвЂ™s remote assistance feature. Although I really donвЂ™t mind helping friends, this particular person lives over an hour away from me so itвЂ™s kind of a pain to have to make that long drive every time that my friend needs help. To make a long story short, in the months since this repair, my friend has called me over a dozen times to fix all sorts of minor problems. The damage was so extensive that I had no choice but to reformat the machine and load Windows XP and all of his applications from scratch. A closer examination revealed that the machine was infested with viruses and Trojans. Several months ago, a friend called me because his son had crashed his computer. Even so, I have always been one to help out a friend in need.

Ms remote assistant Pc#

Several years ago I gave up computer support because once I touched someoneвЂ™s PC for the first time, I usually got blamed for anything else that goes wrong after that, even if it isnвЂ™t related to what I did. This article was originally published on May 13, 2004.

This article is also available as a TechRepublic download. Learn to use port forwarding to get around a NAT firewall when using Microsoft Windows XP's remote assistance feature. How do IвЂ¦ Provide remote assistance on computers behind a NAT device?