Changing the Listening Port
Need to change the port which Terminal Services listens on? To change your system’s listening port, just follow these 5 steps:
- First, run REGEDIT on your server.
- Now, export the following key:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESYSTEMCurrentControlSetControlTerminal ServerWinStationsRDP-Tcp - Edit the REG file and change the name of the key to something like:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESYSTEMCurrentControlSetControlTerminal ServerWinStationsRDP-Tcp-New
- Next, in the REG file find the PortNumber and change it to whatever port you want.
- Import the REG file back into the registry.
You can now connect to the new port using the “old” Windows 2000 Terminal Server client. Alternatively, a better option is to use the XP RDP 5.1 or the newer Windows Server 2003 RDP 5.2 client.
Altering the Port on the Client Side
To the alter the port from the client’s side, just follow these 5 steps:
- First, go to the Start menu and click on Run.
- On the Run menu, type “MSTSC” and click Enter.
*Note: To use RDP on computers with operating systems other than Windows XP/2003, you will first need to install the RDP client.
- Next, in the RDP window, in the Computer box, scroll to the computer name or IP which you wish to connect to.
- Add a “:Port” (without the quotes) where “Port” is the decimal value of the destination port.
- Once you’ve made your selection, press Connect.
Another method of connecting to a different port other than the default, is to run the MSTSC command with the required command line parameters:
/v:ServerName[:Port]
*For example: MSTSC /v:11.22.33.44:3390
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