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by turboe30

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Hi, I recently started a new job and am trying to familiarize myself with the setup here.

The IT consultant has remote access setup for users by means of an RDP shortcut, which brings them to their workstation here in the office. I believe (will confirm) he does it via our domainname.com:specificport... Is he simply forwarding ports on the router to internal IPs? Thats the only thing I can think of, not sure of any other ways it could happen. Thanks in advance!

-Chris

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by jiminpa

Why don't you just ask him how he is doing it? There are many different ways it could be done and with the info provided any answer would just be a guess.

by turboe30

Well, I've kinda hit him with quite a few questions so far and wanted to figure this out on my own... But I need to get router credentials, so I will find out.

Thank you both!

by pshiflet-24

If each user is using a different specific port then yes, there would be port forwarding setup for each machine being accessed. There would also have to be some changes made to each workstation to allow connections to ports other than the standard RDP port (3389, I believe). Check out http://support.microsoft.com/kb/306759 for a description of the registry edit that is needed to accomplish this. Let me know if this helps or you have further questions. Thanks.

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