VPN and Virtual Desktop, How do I do?

[Edward]

Tomas Larsson wrote:
> Dear group.
> The story is as follows.
> I have two Win workstations (XP and W2K) at separate locations.
> Both Workstations are connected to a lan and sits behind a RH9-box acting as
> a firewall/router.
> I'm using gShield IP-Tables script as firewall.
> Both systems are working fine i.e. I can connect to internet, send and
> receive mail etc.
> 
> What I need is to have both Win-boxes to talk to each other, syncronize
> files etc.
> What I understand is that I can use Remote Desktop to perform commands etc
> on the remote box.
> In order to do so, if I understand this correctly, I need to open relevant
> ports in the firewall and forward them to respective box.
> But what I can't understand is how to open a tunnel between the boxes so
> they can connect directly, filesystem to filesystem and utilize shared
> folders to syncronize and exchange data.
> One of the boxes is always un-manned so everything needs to done from the
> manned box, and that could be either of them.
> 
> 
> With best regards
> 
> Tomas Larsson

The port you need to open for the RDP is 3389, so what you would do is 
on the Linux router, tell it that when an incoming connection comes in 
looking for port 3389, to re-direct it to the relevant XP or W2K PC.

Can't tell you how though - I don't use gShield, I only use raw iptables 
commands in a firewall script that is run out of rc.local.

Regards
ED.