[spud]

I hope someone can help, although i suspect it's just a netgear thing.

I have a netgear DG824m wireless router, and for the life of me can't get remote desktop to work from outside my network (i.e. form work to home).

I have opened up the relevent ports, tried different ports, I currently use VNC as a temporary solution and this works fine.

I fear it is a netgear thing, as my mates have different netgear routers and none of us can make this work.

I have the latest firmware according to there site, but can't be bothered to call them for support (to lazy)

[Aaron]

Remote Desktop only needs a TCP port forward of 3389 to the destination PC which you want to control.

Give that a go

[spud]

did try it, and tried different ports, the same on my mates routers aswell, nothing seems to get it to work, which is strange as VNC or Radmin work fine .

I bet it will work when they release a new firmware update..

[gamehead200]

Did you forward it to the right internal IP address?

[spud]

I'm hurt by that question

how can 5 people with different netgear routers all have the same probelm.

[bleach622]

i have had the same problem. i have the netgear MR814v2 router. the only solution i have found is by creating a dmz to enable internet access. the link is pasted below from netgear's site for how to do this.

i am not entirely pleased with this solution b/c i use the router as my firewall. this dmz allows internet access past your router and to the computer which you set the dmz up to point to, thus bypassing the firewall. you then still have to login to the computer at the login screen. but if you do this, make sure that you have passwords set up for the accounts on your computer; otherwise, a hacker could walk right through the login screen.

my workaround for this is... i set up remote management feature for my router. so when i want to access my computer at home from the office, i login to my router, enable the dmz to my computer, and then use the remote desktop connection to login. and when i am done, i go back into the router and disable the dmz again. however, this will probably not work if you are trying to login to your office from home b/c you will most likely not have the same router access rights as you would for your home router.

hope this helps,
jason

http://kbserver.netg...les/N101146.asp

[spud]

i'll get a headache if i have to do that every time, I hope they fix it soon because i can't afford to buy another router.

I'll just have to stick to Remote Administartor.

[bleach622]

spud, on Mar 12 2004, 01:48 PM, said:

i'll get a headache if i have to do that every time, I hope they fix it soon because i can't afford to buy another router.

I'll just have to stick to Remote Administartor.

i found another way, an easier way. the port used by microsoft for remote desktop stuff is 3389. just go to your router settings and forward this port to your internal ip address--probably 192.168.x.x--whatever computer you are trying to access. and when you do the remote desktop login, just put in the external ip address without any port number.

this is much simpler

hope this helps

[spud]

Wont work by just entering the IP.

one of my mates has called Netgear and tried to explain this problem to them, they say there isn't a problem with remote desktop.

I bet they will now secrectly fix it and release new firmware, and not mention it again.

[Sithmenace]

I didn't see this posted in any of the other replies so..... Try setting up port forwarding through port 3389 to your LAN IP like the bleach said BUT make sure you enable both TCP and UDP.

It worked for me!

[ojai00]

Not sure if you got this to work yet but here it goes anyway. This might be a dumb question but did you actually enable Remote Desktop connection in your Control Panel?

[Aylen]

I have a netgear FVS114 and this is what I had to do to get remote desktop to work.

1) Set an ip range of the router from say 192.168.0.2 - 192.168.0.40
2) Write down the DNS address (you'll need it later)
3) In the port forward screen, enter an ip address greater then 192.168.0.40 (ex. 192.168.0.45)
4) Goto your port forward screen and make sure you enable the port forward and give it the range of 3389 - 3389 (that way you are only opening 1 port)
5) Then goto your network properties, TCP/IP settings
6) Then set your ip to the one you want forward (ex. 192.168.0.45)
7) Subnett will be: 255.255.255.0
8) Default Gate way will be the address of the router (192.168.0.1)
9) Then the DNS is what you wrote down (your access to the web)
10) Click OK and you should be set.

**Note: Check your IP address. If you have your router that is DHCP enabled (most are) your provider may be rolling your ip address so it might not be the same. Check with your provider to see if they offer static ip address.

Goodluck,
Aylen