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Another Remote Desktop Sharing Problem

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BigMonty

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I looked around the web and also did a search on this forum but did not find a solution.

I have a IBM laptop given to me from my school which is kind of heavy, so I prefer to leave it at my department office sometimes. When I leave the IBM at office, I wanted to access the IBM from my personal laptop Acer at home by using remote desktop.

At home I have a wireless networking with Belkin router.

Here what I tried to do:

I tried to change my home routers setting (in Virtual Servers) like port forwarding 3389 and I guess I need to put the ip address of IBM (office computer). But routers setting only allows 192.168.*.* type of IP whereas IBM ip (connected by ethernet cable at office) starts with 10.*.*.*

I just got clueless at that point.

Then I put the Acer (my home laptop) at DMZ in the route setting but it did not work.

What should I do?

Do I need to change any settings on the IBM (office) computer?

Whenever I brought IBM at home, RD worked flawlessly with my ACER at home. And when I took acer at office it also worked fine with IBM.

So it seems different network that is creating the problem.

Any help would be highly appreciated. My skill level in this area is quite low. So a little bit detail would be very helpful.

Thanks
 
You have to forward the port to the Acer computer.

I.e. Put the the local IP of the Acer to the virtual server.

Link to: Set Up Remote Desktop Web Connection with Windows XP.

Link to: How to use remote Desktop Access in Windows XP.

Otherwise if you can not configure RDT corrcetly try to use Ultr@VNC (free program). Its provides: Remote Control, File Transfer, and Chat between LAN computers or over the Internet. It takes only few minutes to set it up.

Link to: Ultr@VNC (Remote Control for your Network/Internet) - Installation, and Settings

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1. Check with Admin to make sure this falls under acceptable use policy
2. Have admin forward ports to your IBM at work
 
Originally posted by: nweaver
1. Check with Admin to make sure this falls under acceptable use policy
2. Have admin forward ports to your IBM at work
Click to expand...


Admin said it is fine with the policy but I am not sure why ports at IBM had to be forwarded. I thought it only required at the client computer, not in the host.
 
Originally posted by: JackMDS
You have to forward the port to the Acer computer.

I.e. Put the the local IP of the Acer to the virtual server.
Click to expand...

Thanks a lot for your reply.

By local IP you mean, the IP you find from ipconfig or from site like whatismyip.org? I have no idea what is the difference between these two except this two are differet.

I actually already used the IP from ipconfig but it did not work.
 
you need to do nothing at the home network to connect outbound. A router will pass the outbound connection by default.


Your holdup is at the inbound router. At work, that router knows nothing about that IBM, and the administrator needs to forward the port to the IBM.

This is not a trivial problem. If the IBM comes and goes to different networks, it will likely be set up for DHCP.

The router might give out the address you set up to a different computer, unless you make an address reservation in the LAN configuration.

That is not an option in some routers.
 
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