remote desktoping ditectly into LAN from WAN

[Arran]

HI

I have a home network with an XP Pro box acting as a
router and 5 XP boxs are behind it. Is there a way to
remote desktop directly into one of the machines that are
in the LAN.

More info:

Gateway/Router: Win XP Pro, 2 network cards, one to
cable modem, other to switch, dynamic WAN IP, static LAN
IP.

My Machine: Win XP Pro one card directly to the switch,
static IP.

What I really want is to forward remote desktop request
coming from the internet to one of the LAN machines.
There needs to be a way of specifying which LAN machine
is requested as there are 3 users of this setup, and all
want to acces there own machines.

Id be really greatfull if somebody could point me in the
right direction.

Arran

 

[Sooner Al]

Yep...look at this small page that details how to access one or more RDP sessions behind a
firewall/NAT/router. It uses the XP ICF and Linksys BEFSR41 router as examples. You can also do this
with a VPN link. The advantage of that is you only need to open one port and you can still access
all PCs...

http://www.oecadvantage.net/ajarvi/Multiple_PC_RD.html

Here is the VPN method, but note the client is a PocketPC. Ignore that part...

http://www.oecadvantage.net/ajarvi/PpcVPN.html

How to setup the XP VPN client...

http://www.onecomputerguy.com/networking/xp_vpn.htm

The limitation in all of this is that XP will only allow one external connection at a time...

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/winxppro/reskit/prcg_cnd_dbem.asp