Re: Remote Desktop problems

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From: Phil \(a.k.a. purplehaz\) (software_at_for.me)
Date: 04/13/04 

Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2004 14:39:14 -0400

I assume your connecting to the lan ip address of the other xp pro box(or
the laptops full computer name) and all software firewalls are turned off.
Once the logon box comes up, you put in a user name that's on the computer
your connecting to and its password. If the user account does not exist and
/or does not have a password on the box your connecting to you'll get an
error message. Does user sal exist on the box your connecting to? Does the
user sal have a password?

Tom Richards wrote:
> I've never been able to get Remote Desktop to work. But I'm trying
> again. I've searched the newsgroups and terminal services is started,
> there's nothing in event viewer and rd is installed on both pcs - I'm
> trying to connect my server pc (desktop) to my laptop on my home
> network. Both run xp pro. I get to the rd logon screen on my laptop,
> type in my desktop name (sal) and get the "the client could not
> connect to the remote computer" error message. I'm using a lynksyss
> router and tried entering the wan and lan ip address instead of sal -
> no good. The router is set to assign a wan address automatically. I
> also ran a run command to determine if the ports were "listening" and
> they all were.
>
> My home network works fine - shared printer, files, etc. I'd like to
> eventually work remotely from a machine running xp home but if I
> can't get my home network up and running, I guess that won't work
> either.

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