Networking Question that deals with Remote Desktop...

[MainFramed]

Alrighty, I have a computer on my network that has port 80 forwarded to the router, so when you access the external IP you get the program that's running on the forwarded computer. I need to make it so I can access a computer through remote desktop off the network as well. I dont know how to do this with my other computer on the network using the external IP. If anyone can follow my confusing post, maybe you have some surgestions or possible ideas to solve this.

Thanks,
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[minendo]

Use RealVNC and forward ports 5800 and 5900 to the computer that needs the connection.

 

[kt]

How are you able to forward port 80 on the server to the router? When you run any type of servers, it will listen to the port on the local machine. Now you may forward a port from the router to the server using port forwarding on the router (I think that's what you meant).

Anyhow, you should be able to access the computer from within the network by using the internal (private) IP address. From the outside, you need to access the computer using the external (public) IP address.

 

[loup garou]

Originally posted by: MainFramed
Alrighty, I have a computer on my network that has port 80 forwarded to the router, so when you access the external IP you get the program that's running on the forwarded computer. I need to make it so I can access a computer through remote desktop off the network as well. I dont know how to do this with my other computer on the network using the external IP. If anyone can follow my confusing post, maybe you have some surgestions or possible ideas to solve this.

Thanks,
</mainframed>

Forward port 3389 to the machine you want to access via RDP.
And post in the right forum next time.

 

[MainFramed]

Thanks, and sorry WERK. sometimes i just get selfish and in need of quick reply so i do it here 😱.

 

[Mellman]

yeah, and id reccomend against VNC unless you need whoever is at the desktop to be watching what your doing...RDP is the fastest...yet still slow as deez