Ok, i'm trying to use remote desktop to connect to my big pc in my house while i'm on campus througgh my EEE PC 1000H. The EEE runs xp, the PC runs vista. In my house, when the laptop is wirelessly connected to the router and the pc is ethernetted to it all i have to do is type the pcs name in and voila, i'm on (I should note that i've enabled all the remote desktop things in both computers). However, doing this over the internet is apparantly a lot harder. I have opened up the ports 3389 and 80 as numerous tutorials told me to, i have given my computer a local static ip address, i have the routers ip address. A little confusion came about when forwarding the ports though, it asked for a server name (192.168.1.x) so i set this to the big computers now static ip address. Was that correct? And when connecting using the Remote Desktop thing in xp I realise that i can't type in the computers name, but what do i type in, the routers ip or the computers? or one of them followed by : port (i know there shouldn't be a space, smiley prevention) or something? Also, i'll be connecting to the internet on my EEE by using a 3g usb card, do i need to configure anything with that? Help me bit-tech forums, you're my only hope
Yes, basically when you make a request on the WAN (Public) IP with that specific TCP port, the router looks to what private IP address to forward the request i.e. Port Forwarding. Type in your routers WAN IP address with the TCP port after the colon e.g. xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:1234/tsweb/ MS have a nice guide here
Try using remote support services such as logmeinrescue, gosupportnow etc. in order to establish remote access between XP computer and laptop.
Routers and NAT are designed primarily to handle outbound connections. If there is an inbound connection, you need to port forwards, which tells your router "When you get packets on port 3380, send them to the IP address 10.20.30.40." The IP you needed to put into the "server" field in your router (which is the 10.20.30.40 in my example above) is that of the PC you wish to remote into. The IP address you need to use when you're connecting to your PC across the internet is your public internet IP. Type "What is my IP" into Google and it will tell you what that is. If you haven't used registry hacks to change the RDP listening port, then it will use 3380 by default and you do not need to include the port number when trying to connect. Basically it should be Start > "MSTSC" > "10.20.30.40" and that's it. One more thing, I'm not sure if Vista had this option like Windows 7 does, but there are two levels of RDP you can enable, one labelled "more secure" and one labelled "less secure". If you're connecting from XP, you have to have the "less secure" one enabled.
and be aware that your public ip may change from time to time, you can pay a fee to dyndns, so that you can type in a name as opposed to a an ip address you put the account details on the router under dynamic dns settings Static ip address is better, but most home broadband suppliers wont give you a static ip address, so something like dyndns is better
logmein will sort this out no problem. no setting up other than installing the program no dydns needed, nothing
