rdesktop connectting to multiple XP bedhide a router

[Stewart Nelson]

> > Would appreciate if any one can direct me to a how-to using rdesktop to 
> > connect more than one XP behide a router,
> > thanks
> ----
> seems many of the answers are making this too hard
> 
> on the router - port forward different ports to different hosts
> 
> i.e. on my routers, I will configure them (be they Linux or a Linksys
> type router)
> 
> public_ip port 1389 -> internal_host_1 port 3389
> public_ip port 2389 -> internal_host_2 port 3389
> public_ip port 3389 -> internal_host_3 port 3389
> and so forth
> 
> and then whether I use rdesktop or Windows Remote Desktop, I enter the
> proper ip and port...
> 
> connect to: public_ip:1389 #for host 1
> etc.

Hi Barry,

Craig has the best way to do it, but many inexpensive routers only let
you forward a port to the same port number on the destination host.
If that's your case, you can change the listening port numbers for the
remote desktops to be unique.  See
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;306759 .

Then,

<change internal_host_1 to listen on port 1389>
public_ip port 1389 -> internal_host_1 port 1389

<change internal_host_2 to listen on port 2389>
public_ip port 2389 -> internal_host_2 port 2389

connect to: public_ip:1389 #for host 1


--Stewart