Connecting over the Internet with RDC

Posted: 07-10-2008, 01:40 AM
If I want to connect to a remote computer over the Internet, behind a router, what shall I
use ?
Computer name only ? ISP-provided IP address ? Internal LAN IP address (192.168.0...... )
?
Thanks in advance.

Mike


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Re: Connecting over the Internet with RDC
Posted: 07-10-2008, 01:54 AM
Mike wrote:
> If I want to connect to a remote computer over the Internet, behind
> a router, what shall I use ?
> Computer name only ? ISP-provided IP address ? Internal LAN IP
> address (192.168.0...... ) ?
Public IP address of the router and forward the port (3389) to the proper
internal IP address via your router settings.

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Re: Connecting over the Internet with RDC
Posted: 07-10-2008, 10:10 AM
As my brother, owner of the remote computer, is not too computer-savvy, wouldn't it be
better and easier to use Remote Assistance, instead of RDC ?
This way, no tweaks to the remote router would be necessary. Am I right ?
Thanks.

Mike

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> Mike wrote:
>> If I want to connect to a remote computer over the Internet, behind
>> a router, what shall I use ?
>> Computer name only ? ISP-provided IP address ? Internal LAN IP
>> address (192.168.0...... ) ?
>
> Public IP address of the router and forward the port (3389) to the proper internal IP
> address via your router settings.
>
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Re: Connecting over the Internet with RDC
Posted: 07-10-2008, 03:25 PM
Mike wrote:
> If I want to connect to a remote computer over the Internet, behind
> a router, what shall I use ?
> Computer name only ? ISP-provided IP address ? Internal LAN IP
> address (192.168.0...... ) ?
> Thanks in advance.
Shenan Stanley wrote:
> Public IP address of the router and forward the port (3389) to the
> proper internal IP address via your router settings.
Mike wrote:
> As my brother, owner of the remote computer, is not too
> computer-savvy, wouldn't it be better and easier to use Remote
> Assistance, instead of RDC ? This way, no tweaks to the remote router
> would be necessary. Am I
> right ?
Still need to tweak things a bit - as you are not actually remoting directly
to your brother's machine - but to the router and then to your brother's
machine.

(And if this is not for you to help your brother - remote assistance is not
good unless someone is there to accept the connection.)

TeamViewer would be best in your case for remote help/etc. Free for
personal use.
http://teamviewer.com/index.aspx

UltraVNC Single Click is something you could setup as well...
http://www.uvnc.com/addons/singleclick.html

Once you have control of your brother's machine remotely - you could
configure his router for remote management and/or for the proper port
forwarding, etc. Even assign it a Dynamic DNS and make sure the settings
for Remote Desktop are correct on his PC so that he could remote to it by a
domain name instead of a number...

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