how to access a workstation from outside the network
Hello Experts,
I have a private network using Windows 2003 servers and a SonicWall firewall; I want to find out if there is a way for a user to access a specific WinXP machine from outside the network where he gets directly to the login prompt on that machine.
My idea is to use public IPs for each machine and RDC into the public IP; the firewall will direct traffic to the specific machine and process the RDC request.
My boss thinks there is a way to do this using VPN connection. He says by connecting through VPN it should land to the login prompt.
Can you help?
I have a private network using Windows 2003 servers and a SonicWall firewall; I want to find out if there is a way for a user to access a specific WinXP machine from outside the network where he gets directly to the login prompt on that machine.
My idea is to use public IPs for each machine and RDC into the public IP; the firewall will direct traffic to the specific machine and process the RDC request.
My boss thinks there is a way to do this using VPN connection. He says by connecting through VPN it should land to the login prompt.
Can you help?
Brian Pierce
One way to do it would be to set-up your router to forward the RDP port (389) to the machine and connect using remote desktop
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that's what I thought but I would need different public IPs right? If not, all users that want to access their machine using rdp will land on the same machine. We only have one public IP.
If you want multiple user access then thats a different matter - I thought we were taking about a single user for the occasional seesion, for multiple users you really need to set up a Terminal Server
ASKER
Sorry for not explaining myself; I want different users to access different machines.
Ex. User1 = Access Machine1; User2=Access Machine2, etc.
Thank you,
Ex. User1 = Access Machine1; User2=Access Machine2, etc.
Thank you,
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so your suggestion is: Terminal Server, then RDC to the machine?
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what about this: open Desktop Console from a batch file, for example RDC over VPN, using: 'mstsc /v:servername /console command'
Sintax: mstsc.exe /v:ServerName /f
where: ServerName = Machine Name
/f=Full Screen
would that work?
Sintax: mstsc.exe /v:ServerName /f
where: ServerName = Machine Name
/f=Full Screen
would that work?
No it would not work. The fact of the matter remains: the client's listening port has to be unique since you are sharing one public ip address. In otherwise your socket connection (ipaddres:port#) has to be unique for the firewall to differentiate how and where to forward the incoming RDP session.
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