Remote desktop connection to 2 pc's on same network

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I'm not a network expert, so I need some assistance please.

I have managed to enable remote desktop on an office computer and was able to connect to it from my home. Now I need to access a second pc at the office from my home as well, but it is situated on the same network as the first. The ADSL router is sitting with the public IP address, but how do I tell the router to which computer I want to connect to? Do I use a different remote desktop listening port on the second computer? or do I leave everything the same and just use different login details?

Router = Netgear ADSL Wireless Router DG834G
Office PC's = Windows XP
Home = Windows 7

I hope this makes sense...thanks in advance.
 
You port forward on your router.

For your first connection you have port 3389 forwarded to port 3389 on machine1
For your second connection you can have port 3390 forwarded to port 3389 on the machine2.

When you want to connect to the first machine you RDP in on port 3389 to your router, when you want to connect to your second machine you RDP into port 3390 (but the router forwards it on to port 3389 of machine2).
 
My suggestion :

Run the Connections wizard on one WindowsXP PC, and set up an incoming VPN connection.

Then, on the router, open port 1723 and GRE protocol 47. (portforward to the specific PC running incoming connections)

Then, on your home PC, you set up a VPN connection to your work. You then connect via VPN, and can then RDP to your heart's content.
 
Hi Jakes

You need to change the RDP listening port on the second computer to something different. Default = 3389 so you can make the second computer's listening port to 3390. Once you've done that you will need to login to your router and access the virtual server page. In there you will need to setup 2 rules to forward 3389 to pc 1 internal IP and forward 3390 to pc 2 internal IP
 
The_Librarian said:
My suggestion :

Run the Connections wizard on one WindowsXP PC, and set up an incoming VPN connection.

Then, on the router, open port 1723 and GRE protocol 47. (portforward to the specific PC running incoming connections)

Then, on your home PC, you set up a VPN connection to your work. You then connect via VPN, and can then RDP to your heart's content.
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That seems hard.

4ftersh0ck said:
Hi Jakes

You need to change the RDP listening port on the second computer to something different. Default = 3389 so you can make the second computer's listening port to 3390. Once you've done that you will need to login to your router and access the virtual server page. In there you will need to setup 2 rules to forward 3389 to pc 1 internal IP and forward 3390 to pc 2 internal IP
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That adds an extra steps to the instructions I put in. You dont need to change the listening port of the RDP server, you can forward from 3390 to 3389 on the 2nd machine.
 
@ghoti That is an awesome way of doing it, much easier than my way. I'm always learning new stuff on here, thanks
 
just download teamviewer for each computer, it will give you a unique ID and you can set your own unique password, you can
connect and control each other vise versa.
no need to do too much settings and can connect to it worldwide as long as you have network, even in the same network.
 
Or if you don't want to make any changes or install any software, just RDP to the one, and once you are on, RDP to the other one from that one...
 
Teamviewer
Easiest is to do teamviewer grouping.
Then login from any pc with a browser and an internet connection.
https://login.teamviewer.com/

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Make sure you IT department approves any remote connection or you might find yourself in trouble.
 
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Have a look at your router it most probably supports VPN, setup L2TP VPN so that you can go to it from your windows PC.
then You will get an address inside your network this is alot more secure than opening ports.
Dynamic DNS and you are all sorted :-) (google here is your friend)

Or you could use teamviewer, or logmein.
 
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