Accessing various pc's on one router via Remote Desktop

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I have 3 pc's at home, all running WinXP Pro, all connected thru a
router. I'm just now playing around with Remote Desktop, I can connect
from my work pc to my 'main' home desktop using the router ip address.
My question, is there a way I can connect to my 2nd & 3rd pc also from
work?

Thanks, Dave
 
Various options available...

I use the SSH method...

http://theillustratednetwork.mvps.org/RemoteDesktop/SSH-RDP-VNC/RemoteDesktopVNCandSSH.html

You can also use a VPN tunnel...

http://www.onecomputerguy.com/networking/xp_vpn_server.htm
http://www.onecomputerguy.com/networking/xp_vpn.htm

....or...

http://theillustratednetwork.mvps.org/RemoteDesktop/Multiple_PC_RD.html

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I'm guessing you opened the RDP port on your router and forwarded to your
main PC. You could open other ports and forward them to the other PCs or you
can start another remote desktop in your main PC and connect to the other
systems behind your router.

Jim
 
Jim said:
I'm guessing you opened the RDP port on your router and forwarded to your
main PC. You could open other ports and forward them to the other PCs...
Click to expand...

I think this may be the way to go, as I cannot install additional
programs on my work pc, or change settings that take admin rights. You
are correct, I opened/forwarded port 3389 to my main pc. So if I, say
for example, open/forward port 3390 to my 2nd pc, how would I tell my
work pc to RDP connect thru 3390?

Thanks again, Dave
 
There is an alternate to what Sooner A1 pointed out in his link but only if
your router has this ability. Specifically, I am referring to Linksys
routers that have an interesting feature that let's you access the router
remotely. If you have Linksys, or a router that has similar capability then
you can log in to the router and modify the port forwarding IP address of
the local PC you wish to access. This way, all PC can be set with out having
to do any changes to the registry.
This will only work if you have a static IP address and again, even if you
have dynamic IP, Linksys Routers(more recent versions) and probably some
others have a built in feature that can broadcast the dynamic address to one
of the free dynamic dns services such as DynDNS.org that can the give you
the current IP of your router.
Even further, there is a custom driver available on one of the Linksys
wireless Routers that can even turn any PC connected to it on.
 
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