RDP Access to small network for 2 machines

[paddymullaney]

Hello

I have a small network, 15 machines including printers. I use a Business Hub3, and have no central server, so use a workgroup.

I need to arrange access to more than 1 internal machine via RDP. I have 5 static IP adddresses.

I tried setting up one of my internal machines with a ststic IP address, but it could then no longer see the internal network. Also on reflection, I think that I maybe creating a problem with my firewall security doing this. 

My question, therefore is, does anyone know a way of keeping 2 PCs nicely behind the firewall, but allow RDP to them at the same time please?

Thanks

Paddy

[TimDurham75]

You almost certainly *do not* want the machines allocated to an external static IP - that would make them public to the world so is security risk.

You want them to be allocated a static internal address from your pool subnet range.   It needs to be static or at least "known" so you will know which machine is which.

Each machine requires a unique RDP port number allocated which is a change made to the machine registry.

See here:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/306759

You then set up the firewall to have port forwarding rules to direct external port numbers to the corresponding port and host/ip addresses internally.

The internal rdp is then accessed from outside using your public IP address and the appropriate port number.   The router/firewall will direct this to the correspondiing internal host.