Remote Deskto Problem

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I have a laptop and desktop connected to the internet via a router at my
home. I can connect to the desktop using remote desktop from my work however
the laptop has the same external ip as the desktop and i can't connect to it.
Is there a way that I can have 2 separate ip's for my laptop and desktop? I
tried resolving the internal ips for each using no-ip.com however it does not
work. Any ideas?
 
Sure... Either via a SSH or VPN tunnel, which means you only open one port to reach any of the PCs,
or by port forwarding/port redirection, which means you open multiple ports (one for each PC)...

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

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

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

Personally I use the SSH method...

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I tried setting up the SSH tunnel and as a test i used my desktop as the
remote client and my laptop as my host and it worked! Now I have another
question, do I have to download PuTTY and OpenSSH on my work computer? There
might have restrictions at the office so that might be a problem.

Is there an alternative to port redirection? That does not seem to work.

Thanks!
 
You would only need to install PuTTY and the RDP client on the office/work PC in order to connect
through the SSH tunnel. If the office/work PC is an XP Pro or XP Home box, then the RDP client is
built-in. In any case you really need to contact your office/work network administrators to see if
connecting to your home PC (an untrusted host) from work would violate any company policies. If it
does not, then they probably will be of help getting PuTTY installed.

As far as port redirection is concerned, the alternative is port forwarding as illustrated, or the
SSH/VPN tunnels...

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openSSH or some ssh server will have to be running on his work pc, will it
not?
then run putty or some other ssh client at the remote...

Maybe I'm misunderstanding.. it seems you're saying that he won't need an
SSH server running at the office because the RDC client is already
there............but that's not right is it? The RDC client won't establish
a tunnel.......?
I'm no SSH/RDC expert, I'm asking ... ;)
nor will the RDC client connect with an SSH server.. will it?
 
No, the original poster was wanting to access his *home* PCs, so the SSH server needs to be
installed on one of the home boxes, *IF* he chooses to use the SSH tunnel method.

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This is a followup to the use of SSH tunnel at work. I log into PuTTY and
with it open I try running remote desktop connection following the
instructions on the website you provided. I was able to log in on some
machines but other machines gave me this error: "The client could not
connect. You are already connected to the console of this computer. A new
console session can not be started."

I figured I got this message because I logged in using PuTTY. However, from
the instructions I gather that I can connect using remote desktop also. Do
you know why this error pops up?

Thanks
 
Hi-
You may want to try using WiSSH to make this connection. WiSSH gets
around the error you are getting. Take a look at http://www.wissh.com
and see if it is what you are looking for.

Chad
 
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