rdesktop connectting to multiple XP bedhide a router

[Barry Yu]

Stewart Nelson wrote:

>>>Would appreciate if any one can direct me to a how-to using rdesktop to 
>>>connect more than one XP behide a router,
>>>thanks
>>>      
>>>
>>----
>>seems many of the answers are making this too hard
>>
>>on the router - port forward different ports to different hosts
>>
>>i.e. on my routers, I will configure them (be they Linux or a Linksys
>>type router)
>>
>>public_ip port 1389 -> internal_host_1 port 3389
>>public_ip port 2389 -> internal_host_2 port 3389
>>public_ip port 3389 -> internal_host_3 port 3389
>>and so forth
>>
>>and then whether I use rdesktop or Windows Remote Desktop, I enter the
>>proper ip and port...
>>
>>connect to: public_ip:1389 #for host 1
>>etc.
>>    
>>
>
>Hi Barry,
>
>Craig has the best way to do it, but many inexpensive routers only let
>you forward a port to the same port number on the destination host.
>If that's your case, you can change the listening port numbers for the
>remote desktops to be unique.  See
>http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;306759 .
>
>Then,
>
><change internal_host_1 to listen on port 1389>
>public_ip port 1389 -> internal_host_1 port 1389
>
><change internal_host_2 to listen on port 2389>
>public_ip port 2389 -> internal_host_2 port 2389
>
>connect to: public_ip:1389 #for host 1
>
>
>--Stewart
>
>
>  
>
Many thanks to your guys' help in such a detailed form - which really 
suits my level as I  am relatively  not
deep in networking. Craig 's  way of  setting  should best fit my 
situation and I will try it out, if encounter any
problem then I will voice out again.