Remote Desktop, port forwarding, a newbie question:

[la_panza]

Hello, If I have two PC's on a LAN behind an ADSL router, how can I
configure them to individually access them via Remote Desktop from
outside ?

I know I must open a Port forwarding for port 3389 to these machines's
IP local addresses, (192.168.0.1 and .2), but when I'm outside the
LAN, on the internet, I only see a unique public IP address, how can I
tell the remote desktop client which one of the two computer I want to
log in?

which is the correct way to work it out? I'm totally ignorant..excuse
me

 

[Richard G. Harper]

You need to change the RDP port number of one of the computers:

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx/kb/306759

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[Steve Winograd [MVP]]

Hello, If I have two PC's on a LAN behind an ADSL router, how can I
configure them to individually access them via Remote Desktop from
outside ?

I know I must open a Port forwarding for port 3389 to these machines's
IP local addresses, (192.168.0.1 and .2), but when I'm outside the
LAN, on the internet, I only see a unique public IP address, how can I
tell the remote desktop client which one of the two computer I want to
log in?

which is the correct way to work it out? I'm totally ignorant..excuse
me

1. Change the listening port on one of the computers (to 3390, for
example), as shown here:

How to change the listening port for Remote Desktop
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=306759

2. Configure the router to forward the appropriate port to each
computer.

3. Configure the Remote Desktop client to connect to the listening
port of the desired computer. See:

How to configure the Remote Desktop client to connect to a specific
port when you use Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/304304/
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[Sooner Al [MVP]]

Hello, If I have two PC's on a LAN behind an ADSL router, how can I
configure them to individually access them via Remote Desktop from
outside ?

I know I must open a Port forwarding for port 3389 to these machines's
IP local addresses, (192.168.0.1 and .2), but when I'm outside the
LAN, on the internet, I only see a unique public IP address, how can I
tell the remote desktop client which one of the two computer I want to
log in?

which is the correct way to work it out? I'm totally ignorant..excuse
me

You have a couple of options...

http://theillustratednetwork.mvps.org/RemoteDesktop/Multiple_PC_RD.html

....or run Remote Desktop through a VPN or SSH tunnel. The advantage is you
can use strong authentication versus a password only and you only need one
hole in your firewall/router. Here is a SSH method...

http://theillustratednetwork.mvps.org/Ssh/RemoteDesktopSSH.html

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