remote desktoping ditectly into LAN from WAN

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Arran

HI

I have a home network with an XP Pro box acting as a
router and 5 XP boxs are behind it. Is there a way to
remote desktop directly into one of the machines that are
in the LAN.

More info:

Gateway/Router: Win XP Pro, 2 network cards, one to
cable modem, other to switch, dynamic WAN IP, static LAN
IP.

My Machine: Win XP Pro one card directly to the switch,
static IP.

What I really want is to forward remote desktop request
coming from the internet to one of the LAN machines.
There needs to be a way of specifying which LAN machine
is requested as there are 3 users of this setup, and all
want to acces there own machines.

Id be really greatfull if somebody could point me in the
right direction.

Arran
 
Yep...look at this small page that details how to access one or more RDP sessions behind a
firewall/NAT/router. It uses the XP ICF and Linksys BEFSR41 router as examples. You can also do this
with a VPN link. The advantage of that is you only need to open one port and you can still access
all PCs...

http://www.oecadvantage.net/ajarvi/Multiple_PC_RD.html

Here is the VPN method, but note the client is a PocketPC. Ignore that part...

http://www.oecadvantage.net/ajarvi/PpcVPN.html

How to setup the XP VPN client...

http://www.onecomputerguy.com/networking/xp_vpn.htm

The limitation in all of this is that XP will only allow one external connection at a time...

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/winxppro/reskit/prcg_cnd_dbem.asp
 
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