Remote desktop thru ICS?

[2obvious]

Here's the setup:

- XP Pro desktop computer
- wireless router
- cable modem connection
- XP Pro laptop with Firewire

I just set up an ICS between my laptop and my desktop PC. This is my
home setup.

At work, I have grown used to liberally accessing home using Remote
Desktop. But now my desktop has a typical 192.168.0.blah IP address
and my router has my old IP address. Within my home network, I can
operate Remote Desktop using the 192.168.0.blah address, no problem.
But I now have no idea how to make a Remote connection from work.

What to do?

 

[Sooner Al]

You need to forward TCP Port 3389 through the router to the private LAN IP of the desktop, which I
presume is the PC your trying to reach. Call using the public IP of the router...

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

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[2obvious]

"port forwarding": it makes sense...

i configured this, but i still can't connect outside of my network.
any other ideas?

 

[Bill Sanderson]

Are you absolutely certain that traffic on port 3389, TCP is allowed OUT of
the location you are testing from?

You might want to try from a third location--say, a friends house--if in
doubt.

 

[2obvious]

I'm sorry? Not following you. The location I am testing from is my
very own laptop. I can Remote into my laptop from my PC and vice
versa. When I try my static IP address on my laptop, however, nada.
It times out, giving me the generic "can't connect" popup. I get the
same thing when I try at work, and frankly, it's easier to test here.

I'm not sure if this answers whether TCP is allowed out of my test
machine, but I have a feeling that's not the problem.

Under my router's Port Forwarding configuration I have an entry where
the Start Port and the End Port are both set to 3389, with the Server
IP Address set to the machine I want to forward to. Nada.

Any other suggestions?

 

[2obvious]

I finally was able to get this working, with a little help from my
router manufacturer's tech support.

I did two things:

1) upgrade the firmware
2) reserve the IP address of the computer I was port forwarding to

Not sure which one did the trick (although I suspect it was the
firmware), but now all systems are a go.

--and thanks for the input on port 3389; this was not a default
setting, and it would have cost me even more time to figure that out
on my own.

--E.