Remote Desktop and VPN Tunneling

Thanks to both of you.  After reading your post and doing my own research for the past 5 days I would have to agree a VPN Network with not be worth it.  DrDamnit I noticed when connecting via VPN it gave new IP Addresses and I tried entering those IP Addresses into RDC but was still out of luck.  I made sure all software firewalls were off, thus leaving only the Wireless Router.  The wireless router obviously had the VPN port open and the RDC port open.  When you connect via VPN does RDC tunnel through the VPN port?  If that is the case I'm wondering if WinXP Pro is not allowing it because I read that in WinXP Pro when you run it as a VPN Server you can only have one connection at a time.  Would using RDC through VPN count as 2?  

Richrumble I took your advice and changed ports and it works great except if I'm wanting to use terminal services for Windows Mobile 2003 SE.  Window Mobile does not allow me to add the colon and new port number, it says it is an invalid address.  Also Richrumble you mentioned about chaning my Administrator name, could you leave me info on how to do that?  I remember seeing a post on how to do it but I can't remember what topic it was in.  Last, I was researching on the web yesterday and found a new website called logmein.com.  It is very similar to GoToMyPC.com but has a free version.  Both the the free and paid version have 128bit to 256bit encryption and have separate username and password logins than just the Windows login.  The main difference between the 2 is that the free version does not allow any files transfers or print sharing (I'm not concerned about these 2 because I know there are other means of doing that and I will not be doing that that much anyway).

I will continue to watch this post for another few days and see if anymore useful info is posted.  If not I will split points for both of you.

Thanks,

gc_2002

>>>When you connect via VPN does RDC tunnel through the VPN port?  If that is the case I'm wondering if WinXP Pro is not allowing it because I read that in >>>WinXP Pro when you run it as a VPN Server you can only have one connection at a time.  Would using RDC through VPN count as 2?  

That's a good question. RDP connects using its own service, port, and encryption and does not create a VPN within itself; however, XP Pro should not be counting that as two connections. I will check on this for you though...

No, rd/ts can be tunneled in addition to their own encryption. I've never messed with Win-Mob-2003_SE but in the NT and win2k TS clients you had to use a special file to set the port to another port- you can find instructions here
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;q187623#XSLTH3126121123120121120120
THis might be the same for  Windows Mobile 2003 SE

Using RD/TS is probably better, as you have a simple copy/paste, and a reliable program already, in my opinion.
-rich

Thanks for your post.  As I mentioned in my earlier post I have setup RD via logmein.com.  This is a great site since it lets you do all of this for free except if you want to transfer files (which I don't do very often anyway) and it works behind any firewall.  I'm still using Microsoft RD at home and to connect to my mothers computer since it is faster.  Last, I would still like to a post on how to change the name of "Administrator" as richrumble stated before.  

Thanks,

gcsc_2002

Right-click My Computer, select "Manage"
Open user's and groups, go to users, highlight, and then right-click the Administrator account, select Rename, that's it. takes effect immediatly.
-rich

Doesn't renaming the account in this way only change the user name appearance and NOT the profile name? (ie:  the folder under "c:\documents & settings\<profilename>" will not change...)

Thanks.