Architecture for connecting a remote client to a local client desktop.

摘要

Architecture for generating and maintaining a terminal-services connection from an external client (204) to an internal intranet client (206) behind a firewall (210) and/or router. The external user is first authenticated after which the external client (204) is passed to a remote user portal (212). A listing of available internal computers is presented to the external client user, the selection of one initiates an intranet server (214) to create a listening socket port thereon, and a socket port on the selected internal client (206). The server (214) creates a thread that manages the terminal-services connection between the external client and the internal client by listening for traffic and forwarding the traffic between the ports.