Subject: help setting up port forwarding for RDC, 3 PCs
Kathyathome
Newbie
Posts: 1 Registered: 31/1/08 Status: Offline
posted on 31/1/08 at 16:19
Have successfully used RDC from laptop running Vista
to home PC running Windows XP Pro. To do this
I went to virtual servers section of Belkin
wireless router and forwarded port 3389 to the PC.
However, we have 3 PCs attached to this router,
and I now want to do RDC to any of these
3 PCs. Have read about using regedit to change
the listening port and think I can do that.
Questions:
Do I edit regedit on each of the 3 PCs to
a different listening port, and if so, what numbers
would you suggest I use? Once I have edited
listening ports, what do I type on the virtual
server page - are inbound port and private port
going to be the same number (the new listening
port) similar to the current 3389-3389 for inbound
port and 3389-3389 for private port? What do I
type when I initiate the RDC session in addition
to the number I used previously - from what I've
read I need to use a colon followed by this
new port number to access a specific home PC. I
guess I'm confused as to what/who is doing the
actual listening - seems like it's the router
that is listening and forwarding, so I'm thinking
what good is changing the listening port on each
PC going to do? Thinking possibly virtual server
page is going to have 3389-3389 for inbound port
and this new number (i.e. 44228-44228) as the
private port or something along those lines. Thanks
for help with this.
