Outbound Remote Desktop Connection on Linksys Router

[Guest]

Hi, I am having a lot of trouble setting up a remote desktop connection to my
workplace through my Linksys BEFSX41 router at home. I know it is the router
causing the problem because when I physically bypass it, I can connect to my
workplace no problem with Remote Desktop Connection. Linksys doesn't seem to
be able to help me, they keep talking about VPN tunnels. I don't think that
this software uses VPN. I have tried disabling the built-in firewall, port
triggering port 3389 (don't really know what that does), creating a static ip
on my end and port forwarding port 3389 to that computer, and even a DMZ
doesn't work! Ultimately I would like to be able to use Remote Desktop
Connection on all my computers at home to connect to work, so I think that
port forwarding is not the right choice anyways. I don't see why the
client-side router should have to do port forwarding, I thought only the
host-side router should be port forwarding. Any help would be extremely
appreciated as this is becoming very frustrating.

 

[Sooner Al]

Hi, I am having a lot of trouble setting up a remote desktop connection to my workplace
through my Linksys BEFSX41 router at home. I know it is the router causing the problem
because when I physically bypass it, I can connect to my workplace no problem with
Remote Desktop Connection. Linksys doesn't seem to be able to help me, they keep
talking about VPN tunnels. I don't think that this software uses VPN. I have tried
disabling the built-in firewall, port triggering port 3389 (don't really know what that
does), creating a static ip on my end and port forwarding port 3389 to that computer,
and even a DMZ doesn't work! Ultimately I would like to be able to use Remote Desktop
Connection on all my computers at home to connect to work, so I think that port
forwarding is not the right choice anyways. I don't see why the client-side router
should have to do port forwarding, I thought only the host-side router should be port
forwarding. Any help would be extremely appreciated as this is becoming very
frustrating.

Have you tried a power off/on of your home router? Are you running the latest firmware in
the router? Have you tried reflashing the router firmware?

 

[Guest]

Rebooting the router did nothing, but installing the lastest firmware solved
my problem. Thanks a lot!

Justin

 

[Sooner Al [MVP]]

Good... Glad its working for you...

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