Re: RDP over VPN between two XP pro machines
From: Sooner Al (SoonerAl_at_somewhere.net.invalid)
Date: 04/25/04
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Date: Sun, 25 Apr 2004 06:14:25 -0500
Using RDP standalone or RDP through a PPTP VPN tunnel is just a secure either way. Both are
encrypted the same.
http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/Windows/XP/all/reskit/en-us/pree_rem_quaq.asp
The advantage of using a PPTP VPN tunnel is you can access the remote PC without logging the current
user off if you simply want to access shared files/folders or you want to access multiple PCs (via
RDP) without opening a lot of holes in your firewall.
Personally, I use the PPTP VPN tunnel approach...
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"Kris" <kvdv@easynet.be> wrote in message
news:408b8277$0$11261$6c56d894@feed0.news.be.easynet.net...
> Thank you for this great info.
>
> Meanwhile I've succesfully setup the VPN service on my XP home machine and
> connected over the internet with the VPN client on a WinXP machine.
> Everything worked.
>
> Only one question remains.
>
> Before using VPN I just used RDP. I had configured my router to listen on a
> obscure port and then forward to my internal workstation on the standard RDP
> port.
> Now my router is listening on the standard VPN port and forwarding to my
> internal workstation also on the standard vpn port.
>
> => Isn't there a way to change the vpn port?
> => And if I wouldn't change the vpn port, would this VPN approach still be
> safer than the obscure rdp port approach I used before?
>
> Thanks!
> Kris
>
>
>
> "robert" <rob@ms.com> wrote in message
> news:e%23VoVLhKEHA.624@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...
>> Hi Ksir
>>
>>
>> > - how/where can I determine whether my VPN server should use
> PPTP
>> > or Ipsec ?
>>
>> not sure but i think the XP server will detect what the client is using ,
> so
>> u can setup the vpn type on the client.
>> right click the client vpn connection properties networking>> change type
> of
>> vpn, then connect and see if it works.
>>
>>
>> > - if I would use PPTP, why might I need to configure "PPTP
>> > passthrough" ? And how?
>>
>> your router should support PPTP passthrough, u need to configure PPTP
>> forwarding on port 1723 so that the router knows which computer to forward
>> client requests.
>> e.g
>> internet client --- external ip------router listening on port
>> 1723------forwards all requests to 192.168.2.3
>> router listening on
> port
>> 80 ------forwards all requests to 192.168.2.5
>>
>> > - Currently the RDP service on my home pc is accepting RDP requests
>> from
>> > remote clients. But because this would be more secure over VPN I've
> added
>> > the XP VPN service ("incoming connections"). My question : how can I
> make
>> > sure that RDP will only work AFTER the tunnel has been created?
>>
>> setup your router to discard any requests on port 3389. if your router
>> doesnt support this then just setup the router to forward requests on port
>> 3389 to a dummy address.
>>
>
>
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