Re: Can't get to work remote desktop

From: JW (JustPostYourReply_at_ToThisNewsGroup.pls)
Date: 01/18/05 

Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2005 07:36:56 GMT

even with a router forwarding all traffic on 3389 to your XP Home PC,
your XP Pro machine would not receive any 3389 traffic, because
it is all processed by the XP Home PC (not forwarded further).

your XP Pro machine would only receive traffic on 3389, only if your XP
Home firewall could forward traffic on 3389 to your XP Pro machine, but
i don't think the XP firewall can do that (act like a router), and i
don't think Internet Connection Sharing is designed for that either
(even though ICS knows how to return responses to the right machine that
originates requests).

the same is true in the above statements, if you substitute XP Home with
XP Pro and vice-versa. the router can forward traffic to a machine
connected to the router (wired or wireless), but software firewalls do
not do that to my knowledge.

please accept my apology if i misunderstood your configuration or question.

Guille wrote:
> 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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