PcAnywhere with router enabled

[jimjaix]

(I am the guy that posted Remote Desktop thread)

Hi, I have found out that remote desktop connection and pcanywhere kinda stimulating.... is that true that if you have a router, you can not remote a computer outside your network or the outside computer can not connect to your computer? I have tried MS’s remote desktop guide, of cause no help at all. I was told… that you can’t use PcAnywhere or Remote Desktop connection if one of them is using a router (unless you purchase extra IP address in order to do so). Is that really true…I have been playing around with this things for awhile and find out it’s kinda interesting… please post comment and help Thank you

 

[Byteman]

untrue!!! I setup a church to do exactly that 2 years ago. PcAnywhere version 10. Netgear DSL router w/firewall, Bellsouth DSL router (in bridge mode). you just have to remember that using the external IP address of the router will get you to that point. You have to tell the router to open certain ports for PcAnywhere traffic (look it up on Symantecs site), and you can also try playing around with the computer name as well (if needed,.. not sure if i had to do that tho). We were able to get into the network from home just fine. I'm sure Symantec has some docs on it, i do remember that PcAnywhere used specific ports tho...

 

[randruff]

Byteman, whats up my man?! Anyways, like Byteman said, remoting into a computer that is behind a router is 100% possible, as long as the needed ports are forwarded to the correct computer. You mentioned Microsofts Remote Desktop so for examples sake I will use that program. MS Remote Desktop uses port 3389. With that said, you need to understand the differences between internal and external IP addresses (it sounds worse than it is). Think of it like this, your external IP address is the number assigned to your house as a whole by your internet service provider and may look something like this 154.235.45.101 An internal IP address is assigned by your ROUTER to your COMPUTER. So if you had 3 computers connected to the router, you will have 3 different internal IP addys. Standard home networking routers such as Linksys, Netgear, etc, will have an internal IP that looks like 192.168.0.3 Ok, we got the technical stuff out of the way. All you have to do is access your router setup, tell your router you want to forward PORT 3389(MS Remote) to 192.168.0.4(your computer). So when you try and remote in, your router receives a proverbial knock on door 3389, it knows where to send the information. Get it?