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Access network from outside my router
I have been in the PC industry for years doing internal server work but not dealt with WAN much. I have been struggling with misinformation and a myriad of confusing configurations. Looking from the OUTSIDE > In, what are the basics?
What I have:
Outmost Router: Linksys Router provided by my VOIP provider - My Internet provider using a dynamic IP is connected to this router.
Innermost Router: Belkin Internal Network router plugged into the Linksys
Goal:
Connect to any PC on my internal home network with UltraVNC (3 PCs in a workgroup configuration).
Connect using Windows Remote Desktop
Connect to "another" application?
In simplistic terms, what are the basics here?
What I have:
Outmost Router: Linksys Router provided by my VOIP provider - My Internet provider using a dynamic IP is connected to this router.
Innermost Router: Belkin Internal Network router plugged into the Linksys
Goal:
Connect to any PC on my internal home network with UltraVNC (3 PCs in a workgroup configuration).
Connect using Windows Remote Desktop
Connect to "another" application?
In simplistic terms, what are the basics here?
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Rob Williams
ps- another option is to use the free LogMeIn utility from http://www.logmein.com , which is a little easier to configure.
What kind of server do you have on your network? If you have SBS 2003 you will be able to use Remote Web Workplace and opening ports 3389 and 4125 on the router and forwarding them to the server. If you don't have SBS you are going to have to be more creative. This would be great if multiple users want to access their own computers on the inside. If it's only you that wants to access multiple Windows computers I would open port 3389 (terminal services) on the router and forward it to your server. Once you do that you can use Remote Desktop to connect to any computer on the internal network. UltraVNC is good but there's a lot of security vulnerabilities that come with it. I have one client that gets hacked everytime they open it up to the outside network, so they only allow it internally.
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any luck
no objections here