Remote connection router problems ?

[Justin Harding]

I'am trying to establish a remote connection between my home computer, which
is wireless, and my secondary home computer, at another location, but I have
seemed to have run into some difficulty... The computer I'am trying to
connect to seems to be behind a Wireless Router. it sends out a wireless
signal, and is also a 192.168.0.0 IP address... How do I find the actual IP
address for that system, since I cannot connect to that ID address which is
what the router gave the system... when I have my home computer there on the
wireless network (It's a laptop I'm using to connect with) it works fine,
but as soon as my laptop is out of range and on a different wireless network
I cannot connect to this system anymore...


Can anyone help ?

Thanks...

 

[Sooner Al [MVP]]

More than likely you will not be able to get the public IP without you or
someone being at the remote PC. If you can then from the PC you want to
remotely connect to go to the http://www.whatismyip.com site to get the
public IP.

With that said many ISP provide dynamic IP addresses to residential
accounts. So even knowing the public IP at one instance will not help if the
PC is rebooted and the public IP changes. A way around that is to use a free
dynamic name service like No-IP.com or DynDNS that maps a fully qualified
domain name (FQDN) to the ISP assigned dynamic IP. That way when or if the
public IP changes the change is mapped to the FQDN. You always call home
using the FQDN.

http://www.no-ip.com
http://www.dyndns.com

Many routers have built-in support for those or you can download and install
a small program onto the home PC. The program runs in the background and on
a time scheduled basis contacts the server which then maps the current
public IP to the FQDN.

Remember you also need to make sure TCP Port 3389 is forwarded through any
router the home PC is behind.

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[Justin Harding]

I have the remote IP address for my other system, but it still won't let me
connect to it at all... I can't even connect via telnet on any ports, in
fact it appears every port is closed...

Any ideas ?

 

[Sooner Al [MVP]]

Have you checked to see if TCP Port 3389 is open on any router and/or
firewall (including software firewalls) the PC is behind?

Is Remote Desktop enabled on the host/server PC?

http://theillustratednetwork.mvps.o...pSetupandTroubleshooting.html#Troubleshooting

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Al Jarvi (MS-MVP Windows - Desktop User Experience)

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