windows XP pro remote access over Cisco router?

[wwefan]

Hello, well here is my question, my husband and I have a small business with about 6 computers and they are all networked with a basic peer to peer and Windows XP, I have a Cisco 831 router and I do have a VPN connection on it but it's only to connect to a remote computer which is a customer of ours and we pull down information from there computer for our business, and the other part on the router is for our basic LAN and connecting to the internet over our DSL modem, this was wrote down for me by a friend of ours and that's how I was able to set all this stuff up, we know nothing about routers are how to program them. We both wanted to be able to connect to our main computer at work that acts as the server when we are on the road, I have Windows XP pro on the work computer and found an article about using the remote desktop feature, it really explains it well but the only part we are having trouble with is what do I type in on the router to forward port 3389 which is what the article says we need to forward. I have no idea how to get our router to forward our static ip to the ip of the server? Thank you.

 

[msworld]

Correct. You just need to open the port 3389 on the Cisco 831. Quoted from

http://www.chicagotech.net/ciscorouter.htm

How to forward port to private IP on Cisco Router 831

Assuming the private ip is 192.168.1.2 and Ethernet1 is outside port, add the following command line.

ip nat inside source static tcp 192.168.1.2 port # interface Ethernet 1 port #


Bob Lin, MS-MVP, MCSE & CNE
How to Setup Windows, Network, VPN & Remote Access on

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