Remote Desktop to Two Workstations at pne location

[Guest]

I'm running Windows XP Pro and trying to enable remote
desktop on two workstations however my DSL provider can
only open the port 3389 for this function for one IP
address and I was wondering if there is a secondary port
number that could be used.

 

[Sooner Al]

You can change the listening port for a particular PC via registry change. Reboot the PC after
making the change.

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q306759
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q304304

You can also establish a Remote Desktop session from the first PC to the second PC. Ie. a daisy
chain approach...

1. Connect to the first PC using Remote Desktop.
2. Open Remote Desktop on the first PC and call the second PC.

Or via a VPN tunnel to one of the PCs, then run Remote Desktop through the VPN tunnel to either
machine...

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

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