Okay. Last time we looked briefly at setting up remote desktop. If you are wanting to set it up, but you are still having problems - feel free to email me. I will get back to you. But now, we are moving onward to router configuration.
There are a few things to keep in mind with configuring remote desktop. First, you will need to open ports on your router. Make sure you understand the security risks involved in doing this. Secondly, you will need to assign a static ip address to the computer you want to remote into. Third, make sure your account passwords have complex password. Please don’t open up remote desktop and have a password like “123!”
Hopefully you know how to log into the web interface of your router. Consult your hardware’s documentation if you don’t. For Linksys, on a typical network, you would open your browser and type 192.168.1.1 into the address line. …This opens up the web interface of the router. Next, click on the advanced tab. Then click on the Port forwarding tab. Let’s say the computer you want to remote into is assigned a static ip address of 192.168.1.11. This is how you would enter the information to forward port 3389 to that computer. Port 3389 is the port that the remote desktop protocol runs on. Here’s a pic.
Now that you have set up the router, you will need your wan, or internet, ip address. This can be found on the status tab of the router interface. Just remember that if this is a static address, it may change on you and you may lose the ability to connect to the remote machine. All you have to do now, is open up the remote desktop client (Start>All programs>Accessories>Communications on Xp Pro).
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I have written something about “remote desktopping” on my blog also. It covers Linux/Windows. Let me know at flevour @ gmail com or feel free to comment there :p