Remote Desktop on Port 80 and restricted to one IP

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Nicholas Coad

I have a Windows 2003 Server running Remote Desktop on the standard
port 3389. Works great. The problem is at my work place they only
permit access through port 80.

Therefore I need to have the Remote Desktop server respond to port 80,
which is easy to do. However, I also need Remote Desktop to only
monitor a single IP address as I also have IIS running on Port 80 on
the same server.

Does anyone know how to get Remote desktop to response to only a
single IP?

Nicholas
 
No, AFAIK you can't do that. You could try changing your IIS port to something other than TCP Port
80 and then change the RDP listening port to TCP Port 80. See the following for instructions on
changing the IIS port.

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If you need to change the IIS port to something else (because your ISP blocks port 80), look at this
reply to a similar problem by Bill Sanderson (MS-MVP) for help...

Right-click My Computer.
Manage,
expand Services and Applications,
expand Internet Information Service
expand web sites
right-click default web site, choose properties
You'll spot the TCP Port (80) in the upper panel.

You have to choose a substitute. 8080 is one choice made for proxy servers. One popular brand of
routers uses this address for remote html admin, if you
enable that feature--so 8081 may be a better choice if you might have such a hardware router in
place.

At any rate, pick a port--restart IIS.

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