Apr 22, '05 10:17:00AM • Contributed by: Anonymous
My solution was to forward port 3388 (can be anything) from the router to 3389 (default RDC port) on the XP machine, and connect two different ways using the RDC client.
A remote connection uses the dynamic IP address name and the 3388 port, using a colon to use an alternative port, as mentioned in a previous hint (ex. yourdnsname.org:3388). This is then forwarded to the default port on the XP machine, and everything is great. A local connection file uses the internal address of the XP machine to connect 192.168.xxx.xxx using the default port, which now does not need to be forwarded.
Using the RDC application, you can save these addresses and your connection settings, making it easy to connect locally and remotely, without having to worry about port forwarding problems!
