Hosting the server in the cloud.

[Kent Briggs]

According to that article, you would have to append the port number to login with RDP to your vps....after you change the port number in the registry. that doesn't make sense, wouldn't that defeat the whole purpose of changing the listening port in the Registry Edit App?

The registry entry is made on the server and tells the server end of Remote Desktop what port to bind to. But the client end doesn't know you changed that port on the server so you have to include it in the URL.

[tig618]

According to that article, you would have to append the port number to login with RDP to your vps....after you change the port number in the registry. that doesn't make sense, wouldn't that defeat the whole purpose of changing the listening port in the Registry Edit App?

The registry entry is made on the server and tells the server end of Remote Desktop what port to bind to. But the client end doesn't know you changed that port on the server so you have to include it in the URL.

Ok thank you, now that makes sense.