Here's my network. One computer hooked direct to Linksys router to Modem. My comp is wireless to router. My comp has XP Pro. I want to access through remote desktop from another location. HOW?!?! I've heard about port 3389 or whatever, but exactly how do I do it?
2006-12-07 17:29:12 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Computers & Internet ➔ Computer Networking
you have to enable port forwarding on your router. Read your manual for exact instructions for your router or go the the vendors website and download a manual. Basically you have to open port 3389 and have traffic forwarded to the LAN IP address of your home computer.
To find out your home pc's ip address, click Start, then RUN. Type "cmd" in the blank space and hit OK. A black screen opens. type "ipconfig" and hit ENTER. Look at the appearing text to see your IP address. Now you have what you need to configure the router. That's step 1.
To configure your PC, you have to enable remote desktop. To do this, right-click on MY Computer icon and select Properties. click the REMOTE tab and check the box next to "allow user to remotely connect to this computer". Also make sure that Remote Desktop is enabled in the Windows Firewall on the Exceptions tab (in Control Panel). If you have any other firewall program, you will have to enable access there too. And lastly, you must have a Windows password setup on your home PC. Remote desktop will not let you logon remotely if your home pc has no password.
Next you will need your public IP address. You can find this by going to whatismyip.com. That is the ip address you will need to connect to from the remote location to get to the home pc. Be aware that your public IP address can change sometimes especially if your router loses power for a while like in a bad storm. Read the above posts details about dynamic dns so you can use a more reliable hostnameto use instaed of an IP. If you can't connect remotely then your IP may have changed. Don't forget to leave the home PC on as you cannot connect to a powered off PC.
2006-12-07 17:52:11 · answer #1 · answered by zerocommazero1974 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Once you've got Remote Desktop turned on on your computer as the previous answer described, you'll have to make it accessible from the Internet.
To do this, you will need to tell the router to forward port 3389 to your computer (your router's documentation will explain how to do this -- it's not difficult); if you do not do this, the router will block the Remote Desktop communications before they ever reach your computer. I would advise giving your computer a fixed IP address on the local network (again, your router manual should tell you how), so that the router can be sure of where it's forwarding port 3389 to.
If you do not have a fixed public IP address (and you probably don't, unless you're paying extra for that from your ISP), then I also advise setting up dynamic DNS service at http://www.dyndns.com , so that you can refer to your computer by a consistent hostname rather than having to know a constantly changing IP address. Linksys routers tend to have a built-in DynDNS client (again, see the documentation); failing that, you can download a DynDNS client to run on your computer (see DynDNS website for details).
Once you've done all that, you can point a Remote Desktop client to whatever.dyndns.com , and it will connect to your computer. I have a similar setup; it works quite well.
All this sounds a lot more complicated than it actually is. Basically, the main thing is getting port 3389 forwarded to your computer. Just read the router manual and relax. It shouldn't take more than half an hour to set this all up.
2006-12-07 17:41:10 · answer #2 · answered by MarnenLK 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Did you set up an account with a password for each machine? If you intend to use the administrative account on either machines you'll need to set up a password. RDP(Remote Desktop Protocol) will require you to log into either machines. Additionally, make sure you've enabled Remote Desktop. Assuming you know how to get to the System Properties, go to the Remote tab and enable it, if you haven't already done so. Good Luck.
2016-05-23 05:47:30 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Under Start/Control Panel/System, you will see a tab that says "Remote", check this box to yes. And click the Advanced button and check the box to "allow this computer to be controlled remotely".
To take control, click Start/All Programs/Accessories/Communications/Remote Desktop Connection. Then type in the IP address or the computer name. Then Login and you should have control.
For external networks this might change, but internally, this should work without having to reset port permissions
2006-12-07 17:36:52 · answer #4 · answered by A5150Ylee 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋