WHS 2011 in Virtual box question

[Gregry254]

Is it possible to use MSTSC to remote into a virtual machine running on my PC from outside my network, if that makes sense?

Basically I am messing around with WHS 2011 before I splash out on hardware.

I have the VM running on my PC and I tried to get a friend to connect to it but he cant. I have enabled remote desktop on the virtual machine and forwarded the ports it asks for on my router but still no joy.

I just want to know if it is possible and if so, how to do it.

I am running WHS 2011 in Virtualbox 4.1.8

 

[Gregry254]

did you set the nic as bridge mode in VM?

did your friend used your external (ISP) ip addy?

did you enabled remote desktop in WHS2011 or the virtualbox settings? i believe (last time i used vb) their remote control is based on vnc so port would be different from microsoft's RDP. i might be wrong

Yes to first 2.

Enabled it in the virtual machine as in, in whs 2011 is self.

The different port could make sense! I will try it and then try to talk him into trying again

 

[Gregry254]

That was my mistake Now I need to test if I can remote into my PC on a different port so I can test a few things out while I am at work tomorrow