I have Vista Ultimate on my home computer and I recently registered a domain name and configured the host record to point to my IP address. I configured my router to port forward to the desktop computer on my network. I thought by doing this I could open up an IE browser anywhere, type in the domain name, and then my login screen on my desktop would appear. I was wrong. The only way I can remote in to my home computer is to use Remote Desktop. In the remote desktop window, If I either type in my IP address or the domain name, my desktop login screen pops up. Thus, I figure I've configured everything right with my domain name registrar as well is in my router. I assume there is some other component missing that I have to configure to make this work from IE, but I don't know what it is. I know that when I login to my SBS server in my office, when I put in the public domain name, the SBS login screen pops up in my browser, and once I click my way to my desktop, I can remote into it. Is this something that a non server version of Windows can do?
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