Remote Desktop into a Router

[James Bond]

I'm constantly at school with my laptop.
At home I have a router w/ DHCP and several computers on a local network.

How is it possible to access one of my invidividual computers?
Type in my IP to my home location, but how do I access my individual computer?

EDIT:
Sorry, I may have been a little vague.
The computer at home (the one I'm connecting to) is running WinXP Pro.
My laptop (the one I'm connecting from) is running WinXP Home.

Any other questions? Ask!

 

[tweekah]

You'll have to setup port fowarding in your router. Depending on the program you use, you'll have to foward that corresponding port. RDP uses 3389.

 

[JackMDS]

Read toward the end of this page, it was written for VNC but the same principle can be used with RDT, http://www.ezlan.net/vnc.html

:sun:

 

[BlueWeasel]

I think the way to do this is change the listening port for RDP on each computer you want to connect to. Then include that specific port in the RDP address.

Changing RDP Ports

Example:

Assume you have 2 systems at home you want to connect to:

System 1, Local IP 192.168.0.1
System 2, Local IP 192.168.0.2

Using the link above, you could change the listening port of System 2 from the default of 3389 (which System 1 is using) to 3390.

Then, under your router settings, forward port 3389 to System 1 and 3390 to System 2.

Finally, to connect to each system, you'd use your Internet IP address followed by the port number.

For System 1: aaa.bbb.ccc.ddd:3389
For System 2; aaa.bbb.ccc.ddd:3390