rdesktop connectting to multiple XP bedhide a router
Stewart Nelson
sn at scgroup.com
Thu Aug 5 16:58:26 UTC 2004
> > Would 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
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