[jodaboda]

Hi all. I've done a search and read the results for an hour with no luck. I'm guessing the answer is around here somewhere, but maybe I just don't know what search terms to try. I'm trying to get into my computer with remote desktop (the normal way; I don't want to use ssh/putty/vnc).

Anyway, my parents live down the street, and I have a repeater (54g, dd-wrt v.24) upstairs in my house to get their wifi and send it to my computer downstairs.

My parents have the same router, and I don't want to put dd-wrt on it if I don't have to. I've already forwarded port 3389 to the lan ip given to my repeater.

internet-cablemodem-linksys{stockfirmware}
((()))
linksysRepeater{ddwrtRepeaterMode}{lanIP 192.168.1.108)
((()))
usbAdapter-myComputer{vista/RDP}

Please help! I'd really like to be able to use RDP. thanks all!

[jodaboda]

To anyone following this thread...

I've disabled the firewall on the repeater (security-firewall-spiFirewall-disable).

Still no RDP.

[campigenus]

I do that all the time here, so, it should work.

Currently I use "repeater bridge" on the client router. I connect to a virtual SSID and get an IP from the gateway router. Since I am now in the same network as the rest of the boxes, all works as expected.

Can you ping your folks' computer? Access shares on it?

You wouldn't need to do any forwarding anyway, that's for inbound connections.

[jodaboda]

I failed to specify: I'm trying to access my computer from yet another computer (at my girlfriends house), not from my parent's computer. so:

GFcomputer -** internet **- ParentsRouter ((( ))) LinksysDDWRTrepeater ((( ))) MyComputerRDP

[campigenus]

If you have enabled port forwarding on your parents' router, and you have turned the firewall off on said router, it should work.

Can you RDP connect from your parent's computer to yours?

[jodaboda]

thanks. I haven't yet tried that, but I guess i'll try it tomorrow.

[jodaboda]

it doesn't work, so i guess the issue is with dd-wrt. any configurations I should think about, or maybe a different mode to try?

[campigenus]

I just noticed you are using repeater mode, you should be in "repeater bridge" - or "client bridge" if you conect to the DD-WRT box by wire - so that your computer and your parents' computer is on the same network.

[alain]

make shure there is no firewall on your pc that blocks the connection.
Disable windows firewall + any other firewall while testing!

[jodaboda]

yeah, disabling all of Windows' "features" is the first thing I do after install. I had RDP working before when i had a direct internet connection here (and stock linksys router).

I couldn't get "repeater bridge" to work (it's all wireless, so no client mode). I think i need to find a better tutorial for the settings...

thanks for the input guys.