Novice seeks help with networking/telnet problem

[Chris-John Turner]

Hi there - please forgive my novice'ness....

I have a computer at home running XP Pro connecting to the internet via a
Draytek Router and I want to be able to access this PC using a mobile
PDA/pocket pc running WM2003 (Has GPRS internet connection).

Can someone please help or direct me to a guide on everything I need to do
as I have been playing around for days without much luck. I have terminal
services on the PDA and the router gives my PC its IP address etc. What do
I need to do at the PC and/or router to allow me to connect remotely from my
pocket pc?

Help much appreciated....

Chris

 

[johnsuth]

Hi there - please forgive my novice'ness....

I have a computer at home running XP Pro connecting to the internet via a
Draytek Router and I want to be able to access this PC using a mobile
PDA/pocket pc running WM2003 (Has GPRS internet connection).

Can someone please help or direct me to a guide on everything I need to do
as I have been playing around for days without much luck. I have terminal
services on the PDA and the router gives my PC its IP address etc. What do
I need to do at the PC and/or router to allow me to connect remotely from my
pocket pc?

Help much appreciated....

Would not you need a permanent IP address for your home router and PC?
Without it how would your mobile know who to call?

 

[Sooner Al]

Look at this page for help with that. I use an iPAQ 5555 PocketPC to access/control an XP Pro box
using TSC and Remote Desktop...

http://theillustratednetwork.mvps.org/RemoteDesktop/RemoteDesktopSetupandTroubleshooting.html

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/networking/expert/bridgman_02june10.mspx

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[Chris-John Turner]

Hi there...have looked at this site but am having no joy.....

I'm guessing in simple terms I must identify my public IP given by my ISP
and port forward it to my home pc private IP (Static) and telnet using the
public ISP - have have tried all this but telnet just times out!

Do I need to do anything else with my router - it does have a link in for
teleworkers....?

I think I can't see the wood for the trees.

 

[Sooner Al]

Yes, as noted on the page I pointed you to you need to forward TCP Port 3389 through the router to
the private LAN IP of your desktop. What router?

http://www.portforward.com/routers.htm

There is also a section on the page I pointed you to that talks about how to determine the public IP
of your router and how to address the issue of a dynamically assigned IP address from your ISP.

Have you tested Remote Desktop access from another PC on your home LAN first to make sure that its
setup and working locally? If not, that really is the first step...

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[Chris-John Turner]

My router is a draytek vigour 2600....

So from my pda:

telnet to the ip linking router to internet provided by isp

and router

port forward from public ip to private ip

do I need anything done at the xp pro end?

thanks for help

 

[Sooner Al]

You need to enable Remote Desktop on the XP Pro box at home...

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[Chris-John Turner]

Thanks for help - not sure what I've done but can now telnet onto my home pc
remotely - is there settings in xp or on wm2003 where you can set the level
of graphic etc?

Cheers

 

[Chris-John Turner]

Blimey - it was working now all I get is server timed out -terminal service
stopped.

Is this normal?