security question regarding opening up ports
- From: Schnitzel <Schnitzel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2008 23:02:01 -0700
I'm trying to setup a small network to allow multiple users to remote in
using Windows XP remote desktop. The router in the office allows vpn
passthrough. I was able to setup VPN server/client but this allowed only a
single remote desktop connection. I googled it and are now planning on using
port forwarding starting at 3389 (standard remote deskop port) and up. For
example:
rounter port LAN computer:port
3389 192.168.8.1:3389
3390 192.168.8.2:3389
3391 192.168.8.3:3389
then in the remote desktop connection dialog, one would connect like this:
<router wan ip>:3390
this would initiate a remote desktop session on 192.168.8.2
The office is quite small, so maintaining this list is not much work. I am
just not sure on how secure this is and whether there is a better way to do
this.
I don't have a huge budget, i.e. obtaining a hardware vpn server or
obtaining windows 2003 server is not an option.
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