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Port mapping in Windows XP Professional

Hi.

I need to map some ports on a Windows XP Pro machine to some others used by servers on a Linux machine which connects to the internet through the first (XP).

I've tried using netsh, but it yielded some errors I was unable to find a solution, as I'm totally new to netsh and don't have time to browse its (not so good) documentation.

Please assist.

Thank you vert much.

SysExpert

These may help !

http://www.practicallynetworked.com/howto/
http://www.practicallynetworked.com/sharing/ics/ics.htm
http://www.practicallynetworked.com/sharing/specialapps.htm
Need to map the port, as you are using ICS (network address translation)
http://www.practicallynetworked.com/sharing/ics/icsconfig_maps.htm
port list
http://www.practicallynetworked.com/sharing/app_port_list.htm
http://www.sohointer.net/howto/
http://www.sohointer.net/top/kwe-faq.htm
http://www.onecomputerguy.com/networking/peer.htm

I hope this helps !

Badder

ASKER

Thank you, SysExpert, but none of those URLS had the info I need.

Thanks anyway.

Badder

ASKER

To be more specific:

I guess that netsh is the only way to do this on Windows XP, right?

So, when I try, in order to map the telnet port:

netsh routing ip nat>install

netsh routing ip nat>add portmapping RSNet tcp 0.0.0.0 23 192.168.1.2 23

I get:

No information found for the protocol on the specified interface
Element not found.

Any ideas? Thanks in advance.

SysExpert

1) di an
ipconfig /all and post the results here

2) DO a route print and also post the results.

I hope this helps !

Badder

ASKER

Here you go:

ipconfig /all:

Windows IP Configuration

Host Name . . . . . . . . . . . . : sentient
Primary Dns Suffix . . . . . . . :
Node Type . . . . . . . . . . . . : Unknown
IP Routing Enabled. . . . . . . . : Yes
WINS Proxy Enabled. . . . . . . . : No

Ethernet adapter RSNet:

Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :
Description . . . . . . . . . . . : Realtek RTL8139 Family PCI Fast Ethernet NIC
Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 00-50-BF-4E-6F-48
Dhcp Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : No
IP Address. . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.1.1
Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0
Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . :

route print:

===========================================================================
Interface List
0x1 ........................... MS TCP Loopback interface
0x2 ...00 50 bf 4e 6f 48 ...... Realtek RTL8139 Family PCI Fast Ethernet NIC - P
acket Scheduler Miniport
===========================================================================
===========================================================================
Active Routes:
Network Destination Netmask Gateway Interface Metric
127.0.0.0 255.0.0.0 127.0.0.1 127.0.0.1 1
192.168.1.0 255.255.255.0 192.168.1.1 192.168.1.1 20
192.168.1.1 255.255.255.255 127.0.0.1 127.0.0.1 20
192.168.1.255 255.255.255.255 192.168.1.1 192.168.1.1 20
224.0.0.0 240.0.0.0 192.168.1.1 192.168.1.1 20
255.255.255.255 255.255.255.255 192.168.1.1 192.168.1.1 1
===========================================================================
Persistent Routes:
None

The network consists of only 2 computers, one has the connection to the internet and runs on Windows XP (the one I'm trying to configure), having ip 192.168.1.1 and the other runs on Linux, has a bunch of servers which must be accessed through the first, and has ip 192.168.1.2 .

Thanks again.

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Badder

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SysExpert:

I managed to find the place of such configurations. Unbelievable. It was there all along, just before my eyes.
I think the reasons for this are:

1) Windows "user-friendly" wording, I kept looking for something that said "port mapping", etc... Instead, the solution was in a "services" tab, which in their hand, can be in another server, automatically creating a port map.
2) Searching for things quickly, I had few spare time lately.

For your persistence in helping me, you diserve the points.

Thank you.