Allow inbound connections
After completing steps of securing your firewall setup described here and here, you may ask yourself: Well, what should I do if I want to use some of my programs/services running on my rig via network? Good candidates are web interface of your miner, open hardware monitor status page and RDP1)
The answer is simple: allow inbound connections for any required port. These steps are almost the same as described in block ports tutorial, the only difference is that at step 9 you have to click Allow the connection.
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Change default RDP port
Look at this nice graph of hits (network probes) per day for port 3389 at this page. It's a good idea to change default port number 3389 used by MS Terminal Service to say 33421 or 23786 or whatever random port number you want in the range 1024-65534. We'll use regedit for doing this.
1. Open the Run dialog by pressing WINLOGO+R keys on your keyboard.
2. Enter regedit into the open field.
3. Click the OK button
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4. Copy/paste or just type into the path field the following string
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\Terminal Server\WinStations\RDP-Tcp
and press the Enter button.
5. Scroll down the list of keys until you find the PortNumber entry.
6. Double click the line or right click it to display a context menu window and select Modify item.
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7. Switch to Decimal mode.
8. Enter desired port number into the Value data field.
9. Click the OK button.
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10. Close the regedit window. No reboot required.
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11. Start the cmd.exe command prompt window and execute the following command in it:
powershell -Command "Restart-Service -Force -Verbose TermService"
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Connect to remote PC with changed port
It's really easy, just start your RDP client and add new port number to the IP address of your remote computer (don't forget to put colon before port number). Here is mstsc example. By the way, I recommend official Remote Desktop Connection Manager from Microsoft for managing your remote computers, it's much more convenient for managing multiply machines than default mstcs RDP client. Grab it from the download page
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