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IP routing under XP

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ajf3

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Hi all -

I have the XP hack in place so that multiple RDP sessions can be established at the same time - ie, my wife can be logged in and using it from the console and I can remote in and access my account on that same physical machine from my laptop. All is well with this.

However - when I'm logged into the console and try to make an RDP session to the same machine - in order to open a desktop for another account on that same machine, it tells me I can't when I do it by IP (says that I'm already logged into the console of that computer). However, if I do it my giving a domain name that points BACK to that same machine/IP after going through the internet it works fine (doesn't realize that the domain ends up at the same place after going through the internet and being forwarded by my router back to the same machine). Problem is that this routing is SLOW.

Is there a way that I can make the machine think that I'm going to somedomain.com, but in actuality have that domains address pointed back to this machine on my local 192.168.x.x network to make the speed better?

Thanks!
 
That's basically what I want to do in plain speak, but I'm not sure how to go about it in XP... I've tried adding an entry to my hosts file that points "mymachine2" back to my local IP, but XP still recognizes it as the same machine & gives me the console error.

I am running the alchemy firmware on my router, so I was also wondering if I could do something in there to create an additional local 192.168 ip which points back to either my machine or my real local ip... didn't see anything that jumped out at me though.
 
Originally posted by: ajf3
That's basically what I want to do in plain speak, but I'm not sure how to go about it in XP... I've tried adding an entry to my hosts file that points "mymachine2" back to my local IP, but XP still recognizes it as the same machine & gives me the console error.

I am running the alchemy firmware on my router, so I was also wondering if I could do something in there to create an additional local 192.168 ip which points back to either my machine or my real local ip... didn't see anything that jumped out at me though.
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I was referring to aliases on the router.


I'd have to mod an Xp install as well to see what's it's doing.

not very familiar with the mod although I've always wanted to try it.
 
I've heard that mstsc has problems with loopback connections, but I just logged into the console of a server 2003 and started an rdp connection just fine using the loopback address.
 
Now that would be the easy way... 😉

Actually... I want to have my main desktop up so that I can keep and eye on various things... with a TS window of the other account I can kind of work with both - I have dual monitors so real estate isn't an issue.

I'll have to look into the loopback adapter...
 
Remote Desktop support only one session.

UltraVNC can do it as is provided that you do not use the encryption module.

 
There's an XP hack that allows multiple RDP sessions that I've installed... the concurrent connections isn't the problem - it's the routing to the machine.
 
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