VPN & RDC Help needed.

[bwinfrey]

I am trying to set up the network at work to allow some users to access
their computers via RDC over VPN.

We have a SonicWall firewall without the VPN feature. Currently I can
access the network via VPN, but I can't establish a remote desktop
connection.

The firewall has ports 1723 & 1701 open with protocols 6 & 17. I just
added port 3389 protocol 6.

How can I make it so I can connect to my computer via RDC and someone
else can connect to theirs as well.

Hopefully I have provided the necessary information.

Thanks in advance for any help...

Brian

 

[Sooner Al [MVP]]

Have you established the VPN first? That is a requirement...

Personally I use OpenVPN and access all of my home XP Pro PCs using RDP
through the VPN tunnel. In my case I have the OpenVPN server configured to
force all client traffic through the VPN tunnel including web surfing
traffic. I also use a hosts file on my home desktops and remote OpenVPN
clients that map PC names to their local LAN IP addresses...

http://theillustratednetwork.mvps.org/OpenVPN/OpenVPN.html

Beyond that if you don't want to use a VPN see this page for a method...

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

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