Remote Desktop connection - jump desktop software

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Unable to get jump desktop software to make a Remote Desktop connection through orbi into home pc. &nbsp;Works fine through LAN, but not wan. &nbsp;Anyone have experience or info? &nbsp;Essentially and rdp or vnc type connection&nbsp;

st_shaw · Answer

You need to setup port forwarding for TCP port 3389 and direct it to the LAN IP of your pc.&nbsp; This exposes your pc to Internet attacks, so you are better off coming in through a VPN, or at least forwarding a random high port to port 3389 on your pc.

bsholbrook · Answer

Jump has a front end handshake ahead of any vnc or rdp communications, it's not a native connections. &nbsp;While the port forward mayhelp I don't think this resolves the frontend issue. &nbsp;I've also never setup port forwarding on prior apple or asus routers that I've used.

itGeeks · Answer

Have you ever tried TeamViewer? It woud be safer then opening a port for RDP. Give it a try its free for home usehttps://www.teamviewer.com/en/

st_shaw · Answer

I use Jump Desktop on my Mac and my iOS devices. You can absolutely set it up to use a direct connection.&nbsp;If you're talking about using Jump's automatic connection feature, then I can't help you, because I don't use that.&nbsp; I probably never would either, because of the mysterious handshaking you are talking about.&nbsp;If you setup&nbsp;the connection using&nbsp;RDP protocol (not VNC) and specify the target address as YOUR.PUBLIC.IP:3389, and open the port on your router as I described, then it will work.&nbsp;An even better approach&nbsp;than VPN is to tunnel your RDP&nbsp;connection over SSH and use keys to authenticate, but I'm guessing you don't have an SSH server on your network.

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