Re: Remote Access to multiple PC's on a network

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"YIguchi" <YIguchi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:FB246E97-4FDF-4F47-8713-68E5708972B8@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Hi Sooner Al

Well apart from establishing the secure connection. Is it possible to
enforce it?

Actually i want my users can connect ONLY through tunnel .

I want to block the direct access of rdp. Is it possible to do it ?


Regards,
Y Iguchi


You only allow access to your network from outside through a VPN or SSH tunnel. That is what I do. In my case I only allow certain users to access my home LAN via a PPTP VPN tunnel. Once those users are connected through the VPN tunnel access to specific desktops with Remote Desktop is limited to users with administrator permissions on the particular desktop or to members of the Remote Desktop Users Group on the particular desktop.

If your talking about local access to a particular desktop with Remote Desktop then you could configure the Windows Firewall (or any other software firewall for that matter) so Remote Desktop will only accept incoming connections from specific IP addresses. Those addresses could be limited to the IP range you assign to your VPN clients for example.

This example is for File & Print Sharing but it would be the same for Remote Desktop. In the example the 10.8.0.31 address is an IP assigned to a VPN client PC. The 10.8.0.12 and 10.8.0.101 addresses are other local PCs on the LAN. You might configure to only allow access to the 10.8.0.31 address. Of course you need to substitute your VPN client and/or LAN IP addresses.

http://theillustratednetwork.mvps.org/ScreenShots/SP2WindowsFirewall/FirewallCustomScope.JPG

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