Remote desktop thru ICS?

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Here's the setup:

- XP Pro desktop computer
- wireless router
- cable modem connection
- XP Pro laptop with Firewire

I just set up an ICS between my laptop and my desktop PC. This is my
home setup.

At work, I have grown used to liberally accessing home using Remote
Desktop. But now my desktop has a typical 192.168.0.blah IP address
and my router has my old IP address. Within my home network, I can
operate Remote Desktop using the 192.168.0.blah address, no problem.
But I now have no idea how to make a Remote connection from work.

What to do?
 
You need to forward TCP Port 3389 through the router to the private LAN IP of the desktop, which I
presume is the PC your trying to reach. Call using the public IP of the router...

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

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"port forwarding": it makes sense...

i configured this, but i still can't connect outside of my network.
any other ideas?
 
Are you absolutely certain that traffic on port 3389, TCP is allowed OUT of
the location you are testing from?

You might want to try from a third location--say, a friends house--if in
doubt.
 
I'm sorry? Not following you. The location I am testing from is my
very own laptop. I can Remote into my laptop from my PC and vice
versa. When I try my static IP address on my laptop, however, nada.
It times out, giving me the generic "can't connect" popup. I get the
same thing when I try at work, and frankly, it's easier to test here.

I'm not sure if this answers whether TCP is allowed out of my test
machine, but I have a feeling that's not the problem.

Under my router's Port Forwarding configuration I have an entry where
the Start Port and the End Port are both set to 3389, with the Server
IP Address set to the machine I want to forward to. Nada.

Any other suggestions?
 
I finally was able to get this working, with a little help from my
router manufacturer's tech support.

I did two things:

1) upgrade the firmware
2) reserve the IP address of the computer I was port forwarding to

Not sure which one did the trick (although I suspect it was the
firmware), but now all systems are a go.

--and thanks for the input on port 3389; this was not a default
setting, and it would have cost me even more time to figure that out
on my own.

--E.
 
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