Simple Operation, or so I thought…
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How do I get a port forward to work? (this is for remote desktop)
I go into Firewall: NAT: Port Forward and create a new entry.
I leave everything default, TCP, Destination: WAN address, port X.
Then set the Redirect IP and Port to my internal IP and the same port as incoming, X.
I have it linked to a Rule automatically.Am I missing something? I have internet on this PC and can ping it from the pfSense box and vice versa. But when I try to remote desktop, it doesn't respond at all. The port is not open according to any port scanner I have used. I know the settings are correct on the PC itself as it works fine when I plug into our previous network.
Any ideas?
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I do not know what you are trying to explain but you only need PortForward if your pfsense is doing NAT and you want to connect from WAN to a client on LAN.
Then you need the following portforward:
source port: any
source IP: any
Destination IP: WAN address
Destination port: 3389 OR some-port-of-your-choice
Redirect IP: IP-of-the-client
Redirect port: 3389 (RemoteDesktoProtocol)If you are using the Windows Remote Desktop client and you are using an othe rport thant 3389 you have to put the other port after the IP address:
WAN-IP-address:4711 -
Thanks, that confirms what I thought. So I have it set just like that and it isn't doing anything. I am trying to be able to remote in from home, so it is from the WAN.
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Then check the firewall of the destination client (disable the firewall for testing purposes).
If you are using windows 7 and windows xp then there are different "security" options when you use RemoteDesktop. You have to check this on the destination client.Perhaps you could post a screenshot of your NAT rule and your firewall rules.
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I finally found out what the issue was. We were having some IP address conflicts and so the port request wasn't even reaching the firewall.