I have all my computers connected to a router, I want to access one of my computer in another location by using Windows Vista Remote Desktop Connection, what setting I need to do?
原帖由 Traum 於 2008-5-1 09:34 發表
1. You'll need a static IP (assigned to you by your ISP).
2. Configure the router for static IP addressing and assign it the IP from the ISP.
3. Configure your computer for static IP addressing and as ...
Ar Lik gor... your way works too, but might not work for most people.
You do not need to have static IP from ISP. I use DynDNS. I have one of my computer reporting IP changes automatically. Newer routers have built-in script that can report IP to DynDNS service.
You do not need to setup static IP in your LAN. I use DHCP with Static DHCP setup on the router. It allows the router to assign the same IP address to a specific MAC address every time this MAC address requests an IP. You only have to setup static DHCP for that one computer, the rest can just leave it with regular DHCP assignment. This way should be better than assigning static IP to that one computer, since everything is done centrally in the router, making network administration easier down the road.
This is interesting to know. If you don't have a static IP, how do you know which IP to contact when you're attempting the remote connection from the remote terminal?
Using this free service, they will give u a sub-domain name for your IP address. You will install a small program on one of your computers (preferably the one that is always on, or the machine you want to connect to). That program will listen to your public IP, once it detect a change, it will contact DynDNS and update the IP address on record. Since you are only given a sub-domain, there isn't any propagation time.
So, on the remote terminal, you type in, let say, traum.dyndns.org, instead of the IP. You can now connect to you computer without worrying IP changes.
I have been using this for a few years with telus high speed, and the dynDNS service never fails on me.
As for static DHCP. My 2.5 years old $39.99 D-Link non-wireless router has this feature.
we don't have to install the program to make it works, do we? at least, i never installed it, and the dyndns works fine with me. once our ip changed, the dyndns server should auto detect our new ip or our routers would report the new ip to dyndns server; therefore, when we type our sub-domian name in the remote desktop or ping the sub-domain, it should be our new ip.
by the way, not all the routers support dyndns as i know
發表於 2008-5-1 09:20
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