Accessing a Virtual PC from outside my home network

[GeoffreyR]

Hello everyone and thank you for any and all help in advance...

My objective: To be able to access (via Remote Desktop) WinXP SP3 (running via Parallels Desktop 4.0) and also a MS SQL Express server running on that virtual PC, from outside my home network.

My setup: Cable Modem --> Airport Base Station --> Desktop Mac --> Parallels --> WinXP --> SQL Server

Could someone please confirm what I suspect I must do:

- open RDC and SQL server ports on my base station and point those at the IP address of my virtual Windows machine
- select "Bridged Networking" as the connection type for my virtual machine
- in the Windows OS, open the network connection TCP/IP properties and manually assign an IP address, subnet mask, default gateway, and DNS that match my Airport Base Station... (the IP I manually assign will be the one I port forward to in my base station)

- I do not need to do any port forwarding in the network tab of the Parallels preferences...

Anything I missed?

 

[Elric]

Anything I missed?

No, the steps you have described should work just fine if Bridged-networking works for VM in your environment. Als check before an attempt to connect from outside world that connecting from some other computer in your home-network works. For example, check that connect works from your Mac on which the VM is running

Just pedantic note:

- open RDC and SQL server ports on my base station and point those at the IP address of my virtual Windows machine

Make sure that it is the same IP that VM have