Remote desktop throu a router

[Guest]

Is there anyway to setup remote desktop somehow that the host computer can
work throu a linksys router?

 

[Sooner Al]

Yes, you need to forward TCP Port 3389 to the static private LAN IP of the PC your trying to reach.
Call using the public IP of the router.

http://www.portforward.com/routers.htm

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

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[Leythos]

Is there anyway to setup remote desktop somehow that the host computer can
work throu a linksys router?

If you do port forwarding through the router it will let ANYONE reach
your computer through those ports.

 

[Sooner Al]

Well the idea is to use a "Strong Password". Any port opening in a firewall/NAT/router is a
potential security issue but not necessarily a probable security issue...

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[Tosca]

Sorry to butt in:

How can I authorise access only then for one user - me? I can use one of
several PCs to gain access to my home computer. Can I set the router (or
other technique) to allow incoming requests from a series of particular IP
addresses. What if I use dial-up and the IP address of my remote laptop to
connect to home is dynamic?

I'm confused!

 

[Sooner Al]

Access to Remote Desktop is limited to users that have Administrator privileges or are in the Remote
Desktop Users Group. That is configured local to the Remote Desktop host machine, *NOT* the remote
client machine.

http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/Windows/XP/all/reskit/en-us/pree_rem_hzcq.asp

So...make sure your the only person with those privileges...

You other questions are firewall/NAT/router dependent. I would check with the manufactures tech
support web site or user manual for help with that...

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[Tosca]

I see - thank you.

 

[Guest]

Hey Al (et al),
I have a linksys router.
I have an SBS 2003 server (call it Number1).
I have set up port forwarding on the router on port 3389 to go to the static
IP of Number1. Works great. I love it.

I now have a new SBS 2003 Server, imaginatively called Number2.

Is there any way I can set up my router to let me RD to that server as well?
(Another port?) (If I configure that same port to forward to two machines,
will it give the user a choice when they hit the router IP through RD?) (Can
you use an IP\IP notation?) (I actually have two linksys routers, does that
help?)

Any suggestions much appreciate, many thanks!

Dave

 

[Leythos]

Hey Al (et al),
I have a linksys router.
I have an SBS 2003 server (call it Number1).
I have set up port forwarding on the router on port 3389 to go to the static
IP of Number1. Works great. I love it.

I now have a new SBS 2003 Server, imaginatively called Number2.

Is there any way I can set up my router to let me RD to that server as well?
(Another port?) (If I configure that same port to forward to two machines,
will it give the user a choice when they hit the router IP through RD?) (Can
you use an IP\IP notation?) (I actually have two linksys routers, does that
help?)

Any suggestions much appreciate, many thanks!

Sure, setup VPN to one of the servers, once you make the VPN you can do
anything you want through the VPN. PPTP is simple and easy to setup.

The other thing you could do, if you only need to see the desktop and
not map to shares, would be to install VNC on both systems, map them to
non-standard ports (1 to 59000 and 2 to 59001....) then use VNC (with a
strong password) to access the servers.

 

[Sooner Al]

Why use VNC when Remote Desktop is available and built-in?

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[Sooner Al]

You can get some ideas from this page...

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

....or as suggested by "Leythos" setup a VPN tunnel. Once the VPN tunnel is established you should be
able to access both through one tunnel by calling their local LAN IP address.

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[Leythos]

Why use VNC when Remote Desktop is available and built-in?

Because RD has many issues - such as lamers that leave a session running
when disconnecting, not being able to see if the admin left a local
session running.....

I never use RD, except to install VNC or other remote viewer. I also
never expose the OS directly to the internet except through a PPTP or
IPSec tunnel (and I almost always use VPN Appliances to do the VPN's and
not the OS).

 

[Guest]

When setting up port-forwarding in the router, whats the application file
name for remote desktop? when setting port-forwarding in the linksys router
it aks for the appl. file name

 

[Pavel]

Then name is for your information only and you can put any name you wish
there. The Linksys port forwarding will only look at the port and IP.