I am new to mikrotik and I hope someone can help me with beginner’s questions
I have mikrotik that was set up by third party which is gone now. I added new PC to LAN and want to be able to RDP to it. But it is not working.
This PC was in the LAN before and RDP to it was working fine. However it needed to be formated and when I later tried to assign him the same static IP it had before (.91), it didn’t give him internet. If IP is automatic, mikrotik gives PC IP address .150. But RDP to this IP is not working (I tested RDP at home before and it was working, so the PC is setup correctly). I could find where to configure port forwarding, but this is if I wanted to access PC from WAN. We user VPN so this is not neccessary, but I have no idea why rdp is not working on LAN or where this is configured.
It is very unlikely that this problem is due to the router. Inside the LAN it is probably only doing switching/bridging,
likely without filters.
A more probable cause is the PC itself, e.g. a firewall on the PC.
When I had PC at home I did test RDP connection on my LAN and it worked successfully. But when I brought PC to work and put it on cable on LAN there the RDP could not be established.
It could be that they set some more specific for RDP: But since I do not know where to look as do not know much about mikrotik, I am lost now. The PC has different RDP port set up (not default 3389), so this should be set somewhere in mikrotik right?
No, there is nothing special to be set in the MikroTik to allow RDP on the LAN.
Can you ping the PC? (assuming that is allowed in its firewall)
Maybe there was a static route in the PC to route the VPN users via the MikroTik?
I am not sure about this static route you are mentioning, but VPN works via L2TP and it brings you LAN. Than you still need to RDP to specific computer (RDP from WAN is closed). It is working for some other PC, but not for this PC.
When you think there is a filter in the router you will need to find it yourself or post the config of the router so others can find it for you.
There is no point in continuation of wild guesses with so little information from your side.
What config and from where should I provide?
I am really new at this and am just going through mikrotik basic tutorial now :S
I am not good in this field, but I assume it is some settings on router because:
rdp was working at home lan, but not at work lan (pc should be ok)
if I set up static IP (previous settings; from before formatting PC) PC didn’t get internet and if windows troubleshoot problem and change IP to automatic PC than had normal internet access
telnet or ssh to the router and login.
type this command: /export file=config hide-sensitive
logout (ctrl-D)
download the file config.rsc from the router using FTP or via the web interface (Files button at the left).
also delete the file again on the router.
Now you have the file config.rsc which contains all your configuration.
Maybe you see the problem already (some filter that causes your difficulty).
If not, you will have to post it here.
