one ip, two computers and remote desktop

[Tony Williams]

Recently I've been using Windows Remote Desktop Connection in my college to connect to my home computer to retrive data, work, etc usally I'd just tap in my IP address and it loads up. However today I got thinking, what would happen if I had 2x computers using the same IP?

Let's say my ip is 123.45.67.89 and I have two computers COMPUTER 1 and COMPUTER 2

Would I type something like "123.45.67.89\COMPUTER 2" in or if I just type the ip in who will get priority? also if I was running an ftp server on two computers, what would happen in that case.

Thanks in advance.

[mairving]

No, that wouldn't work. If you had a router in front of your computer you could forward an alternative port. So you could access it like 123.45.67.89:3381 where 3381 is a port that would be forwarded to the 2nd machine.

[Tony Williams]

I have a router, how does the port forward work? I have DMZ on BTW.

[glc]

You can't forward alternate ports with DMZ. You have to assign both computers a static local IP, then configure the remote desktop on a different port on the 2 machines if that's possible - having never used it I don't know. I use VNC and alternate ports are easy with that. You would just forward one port to one machine and the other port to the other machine and set the ports in the VNC service accordingly. With VNC, I use the Java client and you just type http://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:5800 or http://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:5801 to choose which machine - xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx being your real IP and 5800 and 5801 are the first 2 default VNC ports. I'm assuming remote desktop would be similar.