VPN VERSUS REMOTE DESKTOP

[Guest]

WINDOWS XP ON ALL COMPUTERS AT OFFICE AND HOME.LINKSYS ROUTER WRT54 G ON BOTH
NETWORK. ABLE TO ESTABLISH VPN CONN. BUT IF I CLOSE PORT 3389 ON THE SERVER
WONT COMM. WITH RDC. HOW DO I KNOW IF IT'S USING THE VPN CONN OR REGULAR ISP

 

[Shaun aka \humpy\]

WINDOWS XP ON ALL COMPUTERS AT OFFICE AND HOME.LINKSYS ROUTER WRT54 G ON BOTH
NETWORK. ABLE TO ESTABLISH VPN CONN. BUT IF I CLOSE PORT 3389 ON THE SERVER
WONT COMM. WITH RDC. HOW DO I KNOW IF IT'S USING THE VPN CONN OR REGULAR ISP

I'm not quite sure what you're asking but, you can change the
listening port (3389) in the registry for rdc, maybe that will help
you . Are you using 1723 for vpn ? You can also log your port
activity....


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

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/837243

 

[Jeffrey Randow (MVP)]

You are using the VPN when you specify a private IP address or
non-internet routable computer name.
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