| One thing that I love about all news windows | | | | using Registry Editor incorrectly. Use |
| products is the remote desktop features. I | | | | Registry Editor at your own risk.You can use |
| previously used PCAnywhere but I find that | | | | the Remote Desktop feature in Windows XP |
| remote desktop is now almost as good, would | | | | Professional to connect to your computer from |
| like to see a file transfer like PCAnywhere | | | | another, remote computer. WARNING: The Remote |
| has, but remote desktop is free so that is a | | | | Assistance feature in Windows XP may not work |
| plus for it.One of the tasks that I face with | | | | properly if you change the listening port. To |
| my network setup is forwarding ports through | | | | change the port that Remote Desktop listens |
| my router. There are two issues that I came | | | | on: |
| across when dealing with the RDP forwarding. | | | | |
| The first was what is the port number of RDP. | | | | Start Registry Editor (Regedt32.exe). |
| With a quick search on Google I found that | | | | |
| the standard RDP port is 3389.Now that you | | | | Locate the following key in the registry: |
| have the port number you can simply go into | | | | |
| your router and forward that port through and | | | | |
| after enabling your remote desktop feature it | | | | HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESystemCurrentControlSetCont |
| will work from outside your network as long | | | | rolTerminalServerWinStationsRDP-TcpPortNumber |
| as you either know your IP address or have a | | | | On the Edit menu, click Modify, click |
| dynamic dns service like I use. To enable | | | | Decimal, type the new port number, and then |
| remote desktop in Windows XP and Windows 2003 | | | | click OK. |
| go to the start menu, find the my computer | | | | |
| icon and right click on it. Select the | | | | Quit Registry Editor. |
| properties option in the drop down list and | | | | |
| then click on the remote tag in the window | | | | NOTE: When you try to connect to this |
| that appears. There you will see the two | | | | computer by using the Remote Desktop |
| check boxes, check the second box, and then | | | | connection, you must type the new port. |
| click on the remote user button. Make sure | | | | |
| that the users you want to have access are in | | | | Keywords: kbhowto kbnetwork KB306759 |
| the list and then click ok until you have | | | | |
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| enabled on your machine.So this simple setup | | | | kbrdcWin100 kbWinXPPro kbWinXPPro64bit |
| would have worked for my network but the | | | | kbWinXPProSearch kbWinXPSearch |
| issue then became I have several servers that | | | | kbZNotKeyword*****The other option I had was |
| I want access to along with my desktop. Now | | | | to go into my router and specify another |
| I could just remote to my desktop and then | | | | external port number and then point that port |
| remote to the other machines from there since | | | | to the 3398 on the IP address of the machine |
| they are all on the local network. This | | | | I wanted to go to. I chose this second |
| would create a lot of data that needed to be | | | | option as it was less time consuming and did |
| transferred though, with limited upstream | | | | the trick for me. One appealing thing about |
| speeds on your broadband connection you don't | | | | the ability to change the port number of RDP |
| want this, and will cause performance issues | | | | is security. If you leave the standard port |
| with RDP. So I had two options, I could | | | | number then anyone will know to check that |
| change the registry entry like was stated in | | | | port to see if you have Remote Desktop |
| the article. I will paste that fix here just | | | | enabled and potentially compromise your |
| in case that page has an issue at some | | | | network. Let me know if there are any issues |
| point:***** | | | | with the registry fix though and if there are |
| | | | I will just remove it from this article.Jason |
| WARNING: If you use Registry Editor | | | | Fortner is co-founder of Total Productivity |
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