Re: Remote Desktop problems

From: Thomas Wendell (tumppiw_at_NO_SPAMhotmail.com)
Date: 04/13/04 

Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2004 01:03:53 +0300

What is the service that should be listening? RDsessmgr (sessmgr.exe)?? Is
the procedure the same for a software firewall (Sygate PF)? 

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"Phil (a.k.a. purplehaz)" <software@for.me> kirjoitti viestissä
news:eIwvO9YIEHA.3356@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...
> Great. Now it gets a bit tricker, since you have a router involved. The
> first thing you have to do is setup the router to port forward. In the
> routers config page (usually at 192.168.0.1) you should see settings to
> setup port forwarding. You will have to tell the router to open port 3389
> and if anyone tries to connect to it to forward that connection to your
> computers lan ip address that has remote desktop listening.
> (note: 3389 is the default port and can be changed in the registry for
added
> security).
> Once you have the port forwarding setup, from outside your network you
would
> try to connect to your networks WAN ip address. You'll find this in the
> router info pages. When a connection to the wan is initiated it will
forward
> that connection to the correct box, the logon will popup, and you can log
> in.
> Note: the computer listening with RD must be online
> Note: if you change the default port then when you try to connect you have
> to specify the port as well, like this:
> 66.66.66.68:7777
>
> Tom Richards wrote:
> > Wow Phil...that worked! I assigned myself a psswd and voila....Now,
> > once I make sure the appropriate files are installed on my remote
> > (girlfriend's - xp home) machine, what address would she use to
> > access my desktop?
> >
> >
> > "Phil (a.k.a. purplehaz)" <software@for.me> wrote in message
> > news:%23yMViaYIEHA.964@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
> >> 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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