I have airport extreme. I would like to set up a remote desktop to my Windows 7 computer. How can I set up the port mapping? I tried myself and It does not work. Can someone here post a very detailed step by step setup process?

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I have airport extreme. I would like to set up a remote desktop to my Windows 7 computer. How can I set up the port mapping? I tried myself and It does not work. Can someone here post a very detailed step by step setup process?

I tried to setup a remote desktop via airport extreme, but I could not.

The following is what I did:

1) Enable the remote desktop service at my local computer:

2) On my airport Extreme internet connection, DHCP tab to associate my computer's MAC address(erased here) to a Ipv4 address:

3) On my airport Extreme Advanced Tap, configure a custom service for remote desktop because in the Service dropdown, I can only see file sharing or Apple Remote Desktop and save and update the router:

4) On another computer, type the following from Remote Desktop Application:

<my ipaddress>:3389

I got this(erased by destination computer's ip address. IP address is using find ip address from internet and should be correct, also it is shown in airport Extreme AirPort tab):

Did I miss a step or did something wrong? How can I correct it?

Thanks

Brian

iPhone 4

Posted on May 25, 2015 3:59 PM

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Answer 1

Tesserax

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May 25, 2015 8:11 PM in response to brianfromarcadia

In step 4 is <my ip address> the public (WAN-side) IP address of your network?

If you haven't already seen this, please give the following Microsoft support article a quick review. Please post back your results.

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Answer 2

May 26, 2015 6:44 PM in response to Tesserax

Thank you very much. I guess it has something to do with Microsoft. I went through the MS documentation and related links, I found the following:

You can't use Remote Desktop Connection to connect to computers running Windows 7 Starter, Windows 7 Home Basic, or Windows 7 Home Premium.

And I am using Windows 7 Home Premium. This *****! But I have a nice try.

Thank you again.

Brian

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Answer 3

May 26, 2015 6:59 PM in response to brianfromarcadia

Use teamviewer logmein etc.. there are several services available.. they are much much easier than using Remote Desktop because the link is established from inside the NAT router.

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