Stewart Nelson wrote:
Many thanks to your guys' help in such a detailed form - which really suits my level as I am relatively notWould appreciate if any one can direct me to a how-to using rdesktop to connect more than one XP behide a router,
thanks
---- seems many of the answers are making this too hard
on the router - port forward different ports to different hosts
i.e. on my routers, I will configure them (be they Linux or a Linksys type router)
public_ip port 1389 -> internal_host_1 port 3389 public_ip port 2389 -> internal_host_2 port 3389 public_ip port 3389 -> internal_host_3 port 3389 and so forth
and then whether I use rdesktop or Windows Remote Desktop, I enter the proper ip and port...
connect to: public_ip:1389 #for host 1
etc.
Hi Barry,
Craig has the best way to do it, but many inexpensive routers only let you forward a port to the same port number on the destination host. If that's your case, you can change the listening port numbers for the remote desktops to be unique. See http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;306759 .
Then,
<change internal_host_1 to listen on port 1389> public_ip port 1389 -> internal_host_1 port 1389
<change internal_host_2 to listen on port 2389> public_ip port 2389 -> internal_host_2 port 2389
connect to: public_ip:1389 #for host 1
--Stewart
deep in networking. Craig 's way of setting should best fit my situation and I will try it out, if encounter any
problem then I will voice out again.
