view multiple computers through 1 dsl connection
paul
This is my delima: I am remotly calling into a peer to
peer network. My host computer is in Sacramento and the
peer to peer network is in San Francisco. How do I set up
my peer to peer network so that I can remotly access each
computer with full screen view (one at a time). When I
try it now I must plug the dsl modem directly into the
computer I want to see and put in my dsl ip address. How
can I see all ten computers (not at the same time).
Bill Sanderson
about here?
There are a number of solutions to this, depending on the number of
machines, and your needs.
As a general rule, a VPN connection into the peer-to-peer network, if
configured correctly, should give you equal access to all the machines,
using their private IP addresses. You can host a single VPN connection on
an XP pro machine, and you can set your router to forward incoming VPN
traffic to a given machine, just as you are now doing for RD or whatever you
are doing.
You ARE using a router, aren't you? If not, you need a router--this is not
terribly expensive--$60-$75 or so, and there are many advantages, and a few
disadvantages.
The other solution is to configure the router or the router and the
workstations, so that separate ports coming into the router go to separate
workstations.
This can be done with a UPnP router or firewall, directly on the router or
firewall. Or, it can be done on the workstations, with an additional step
to forward the chosen port for each workstation through the router.
All-in-all, for your application, VPN would seem best suited as far as I can
see from what you posted. If you needed 10 separate simultaneous incoming
connections to the 10 workstations, that would be tougher--in that
situation, a router which can host the VPN connections directly would be a
better solution.
"paul" <pa...@maxcommtechnologies.com> wrote in message
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paul
cannot see the desktop only files.
When we access our network from the remote site we are
putting in our dsl ip address as computer name (is this
right it works for one computer?).
Then we hooked up a linksys router and fowarded port 3389
and then it goes to the switch.
We enter the user name of the computer we want to access
along with our password and we get an error.
If we put the computer private ip address the web cannot
find our computer. should we be putting somehting else in
the "computer name" section of the remote desktop
connecton.
>.
>
Bill Sanderson
connection should get you an IP address on the same subnet as the
workstations, from which you can connect equally well to each workstation.
see comments interspersed:
"paul" <pa...@maxcommtechnologies.com> wrote in message
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> We are using a remote access. We tried using VPN but you
> cannot see the desktop only files.
>
Yes, but then you use Remote Desktop over the VPN connection.
> When we access our network from the remote site we are
> putting in our dsl ip address as computer name (is this
> right it works for one computer?).
>
Correct.
> Then we hooked up a linksys router and fowarded port 3389
> and then it goes to the switch.
>
> We enter the user name of the computer we want to access
> along with our password and we get an error.
Are you using the /tsweb ActiveX client, or the Remote Desktop Connection
executable client? If you are using the ActiveX client, just hit
enter--don't put anything in.
If you are using RDC, you should just get a login screen for the particular
machine the router is forwarding to.
>
> If we put the computer private ip address the web cannot
> find our computer. should we be putting somehting else in
> the "computer name" section of the remote desktop
> connecton.
If the router is set to forward all unsolicited incoming port 3389 traffic
to a given machine, that's the only machine you are going to be able to
access.
So, instead:
Configure one of your machines to provide VPN access--you've already done
this it sounds like, but there's one additional step to do. Once you've
created the Incoming Connection, right click it and choose properties.
Networking tab
properties of tcp/ip.
I suggest setting this to Specify TCP/IP addresses, and picking a block of
three addresses on the same subnet as the 10 workstations, but outside the
range that will be used locally.
Then, in the Linksys router, forward port 1723, TCP, to the VPN host
machine. Be sure that PPTP passthrough is checked, and that SPI is disabled
(it already is, or your forwarding through the router wouldn't be working.
This should mean that when you connect, via VPN, to the public address of
the router, you are authenticated by the XP Pro workstation which is the VPN
host, and you get an IP address from the range you just specified above,
which should put you on the same subnet as the other machines.
at this point run the Remote Desktop Connection, and put in any given
workstations IP address to connect. I believe you can even use the ActiveX
/tsweb method--just choose a web server set up to hand out the control, and
put in any workstations private IP address.