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Why use VNC when Remote Desktop is available and built-in?
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"Leythos" <void@nowhere.lan> wrote in message
news:MPG.1c48efd22487bed989e2b@news-server.columbus.rr.com...
> In article <6D470DC7-D453-4719-A300-88A90D7ADDA2@microsoft.com>,
> DaveCarr@discussions.microsoft.com says...
>> Hey Al (et al),
>> I have a linksys router.
>> I have an SBS 2003 server (call it Number1).
>> I have set up port forwarding on the router on port 3389 to go to the static
>> IP of Number1. Works great. I love it.
>>
>> I now have a new SBS 2003 Server, imaginatively called Number2.
>>
>> Is there any way I can set up my router to let me RD to that server as well?
>> (Another port?) (If I configure that same port to forward to two machines,
>> will it give the user a choice when they hit the router IP through RD?) (Can
>> you use an IP\IP notation?) (I actually have two linksys routers, does that
>> help?)
>>
>> Any suggestions much appreciate, many thanks!
>
> Sure, setup VPN to one of the servers, once you make the VPN you can do
> anything you want through the VPN. PPTP is simple and easy to setup.
>
> The other thing you could do, if you only need to see the desktop and
> not map to shares, would be to install VNC on both systems, map them to
> non-standard ports (1 to 59000 and 2 to 59001....) then use VNC (with a
> strong password) to access the servers.
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