VPN and Virtual Desktop, How do I do?

[Tomas Larsson]

Dear group.
The story is as follows.
I have two Win workstations (XP and W2K) at separate locations.
Both Workstations are connected to a lan and sits behind a RH9-box acting as
a firewall/router.
I'm using gShield IP-Tables script as firewall.
Both systems are working fine i.e. I can connect to internet, send and
receive mail etc.

What I need is to have both Win-boxes to talk to each other, syncronize
files etc.
What I understand is that I can use Remote Desktop to perform commands etc
on the remote box.
In order to do so, if I understand this correctly, I need to open relevant
ports in the firewall and forward them to respective box.
But what I can't understand is how to open a tunnel between the boxes so
they can connect directly, filesystem to filesystem and utilize shared
folders to syncronize and exchange data.
One of the boxes is always un-manned so everything needs to done from the
manned box, and that could be either of them.


With best regards

Tomas Larsson

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