remote access using dial-up

[iatech]

First off,
Merry Christmas to all

Now onto business
I came home for Christmas to find my mom is done with the flu. I have been asked to set up a way for my mom to access her computer at her office from home. The down side is that all I have to work with here are dial up modems. The home computer is windows xp home the office computer is profesional. I have set up remote access with win 2k in the way I need to but I am having problems doing it with xp. If I could get any advice on this it would be much appreciated
Thanks
Iatech

[NooNoo]

First off,
Merry Christmas to all

Now onto business
I came home for Christmas to find my mom is done with the flu. I have been asked to set up a way for my mom to access her computer at her office from home. The down side is that all I have to work with here are dial up modems. The home computer is windows xp home the office computer is profesional. I have set up remote access with win 2k in the way I need to but I am having problems doing it with xp. If I could get any advice on this it would be much appreciated
Thanks
Iatech

Is her computer at work on a network? If so the sysadmin just needs to set up a vpn connection. You then either use internet access to get there or dialup direct.

[Gollo]

Is her computer at work on a network? If so the sysadmin just needs to set up a vpn connection. You then either use internet access to get there or dialup direct.

Or if she absolutely needs to "see" her screen then use something like pc anywhere or remote desktop (if it's available for 2k. I'm to lazy to look it up right now ) but what you could do is use noonoo's suggestion along with some flavor of vnc (since it's running over the encrypted vpn) Cheers.

[iatech]

I had thought about using PC anywhere but I thought I would just check to see if there was windows software I could use to accomplish this. I have just found out that that the computer at home is win98se not xp home if that changes anything at all. These are both stand alone systems with no network intact at either location. I do agree that a vpn would be the best way to do this but I don't know if it will be practical in this situation here.
I have tried to just set up dial up networking but am having problems with that. Gonna keep messing with it and see what I can do.
Thanks for the help so far
Iatech

[NooNoo]

I had thought about using PC anywhere but I thought I would just check to see if there was windows software I could use to accomplish this. I have just found out that that the computer at home is win98se not xp home if that changes anything at all. These are both stand alone systems with no network intact at either location. I do agree that a vpn would be the best way to do this but I don't know if it will be practical in this situation here.
I have tried to just set up dial up networking but am having problems with that. Gonna keep messing with it and see what I can do.
Thanks for the help so far
Iatech

VPN is still possible, its a connection thats made to a vpn capable server... the os is (almost) irrelevant. However, if you have no network... how does the machine at work connect to the internet?

If it doesn't you will need to get them to setup some kind of modem or internet connection for it... or dial direct. Either way, they have to do some work now!

[iatech]

VPN is still possible, its a connection thats made to a vpn capable server... the os is (almost) irrelevant. However, if you have no network... how does the machine at work connect to the internet?

If it doesn't you will need to get them to setup some kind of modem or internet connection for it... or dial direct. Either way, they have to do some work now!

They use the same aol account at the office and at home to connect to the internet.

[NooNoo]

So the pc does have its own modem? Is it a local call? You could dial in direct and use pc anywhere, laplink, vnc, remote admin, whatever you fancy