Can't get to work remote desktop

From: Guille (Guille_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 01/17/05 

Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2005 14:31:04 -0800

First look at this..

Internet----->HOST pc (home edition)----->client or slave pc (professional
edition).

Ok, understand? I got my network running like that. The router gets the
internet, it goes to my host PC on an ethernet adapter, then i got ANOTHER
ethernet adapter to link the other pc to this one, that other pc has
professional edition.

Ok, I open the port 3389 (port forwarding, speed stream rouert, piece of
cake). I open my windows firewall on both PC allowing remote desktop. First i
try connecting from my host pc to the other pc, no problem, it worked, then,
"just for fun", i asked a friend to take control over my winXP pro PC (the
one is behind this one on my network). To make things easier for me, I use
remote assistance to configure everything on his PC (note he got winXP home
edition, so connecting to his PC from mine wont work since Home edition can't
be controlled remotly, i know that). Ok, i run ipconfig to see which is the
IP address for my other computer, and on remote desktop I put on computer
name (note that I am controlling his PC via remote assistance windows
messenger), it show up this error: "The client could not connect to the
remote computer. Remote connections might not be enabled or the computer
might be too busy to accept new connections. It is also possible that network
problems are preventing your connection. Please try your connection again
later. If the problem continues to occur, contact your administrator.".

So, what could be going wrong? I specified that my winXP pro PC is behind
this PC i am using now "Home edition" becasuse I think that there could be
the mistake, later i will try putting my router directly to the pc running
winXP pro. But i think it should work just as i have my settings right now.
(NOTE that i always let my host pc online and looged on).

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