Multiple remote desktops over one IP address / router

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Gavin Will

Hello

With PCanywhere you can change the ports that pcanywhere listens on to
accept connections. Therefore by using a router with Nat you can port
forward on different ports onto computers with static private ip
addresses to control multiple computers with one public IP address.


Example

PCAnywhere>PublicIP:5001 goes to PrivateIP Computer 1 listening on
port 5001
PCAnywhere>PublicIP:5011 goest to PrivateIPcomputer 2 listening on
port 5011



Is there a similar thing you can do with remote desktop? I presume
you could change the port it listens to by hacking the registry but I
cant see a way of telling the computer you are working on to connect
up to the remote computer on the modified port.

I hope this all makes sense.

The other option I was thinking of was setting up tsweb and just
change the ports in IIS but I am reluctant to use IIS.

Any info would be appreciated.

Cheers
 
You can do this, and yes it takes registry hacking--but at least it is
documented registry hacking!

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q306759

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=304304

and yes, the first article should point to the second article (they do have
the reverse link in there) and I'll suggest that to them.

You can do this with the web connection and IIS but it is somewhat more
complex--the tsweb connection uses both the http (port 80 or whatever) and
3389--so you have to make the change in the first url above, and write
custom web page code to allow for connection to each separate host.
(to say nothing of the security implications of running IIS, which you are
right to be reluctant to add to the mix!)
 
Brilliant.. Just the trick... Just the same as we do with PC anywhere...

Cheers Bill
 
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