Remote Desktop

[Guest]

Hi
I am trying to remove PCAnyWhere from my client's machines and to replace it with Remote Desktop. With PCAnyWhere I had to open a number of ports on the firewall (in fact I had to open 3 sets of ports to allow 3 PCAnywhere clients). Do I have to do the same thing with Remote Desktop (and which ports would I open). If I want to allow Remote Desktop on a number of machines, do I have to set port numbers for these desktops? Do I have to assign new port numbers (if so - please, how?
Thanks for any help you can provide

Rich

 

[purplehaz]

Yes you will have to open the port in the firewall. The default port that
remote desktop listens on is 3389. You can change that port if needed.
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;306759
You can be a remote desktop host on any xp pro machine and any windows
machine can be a client, but only one client can connect to and use remote
desktop on the pro host at a time.

 

[Guest]

Thank you very much - I appreciate your help.

Rich

 

[purplehaz]

You're welcome.