Re: cannot connect to a host behind a router

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Just out of curiosity, when trying to connect from outside your
LAN, what IP address are
you entering in the Computer box on the General page of Remote
Desktop Connection? You have to enter the public IP address (the
one that is assigned by an ISP). On one of the work computers go
to www.whatsmyip.org. The IP address reported is what you should
be using.

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Nepatsfan
"dobraf" <dobraf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>I have four computers at work which are all connected to a DI
>604 router.
> The one I'm trying to connect to has XP pro SP2. I've
> configured port
> forwarding on the router to forward incoming RDC connections to
> port 3389.
> The computer is at 192.168.0.101 on the LAN and that's the
> location I've
> forworded it to. I also made Remote Desktop one of the
> exceptions on Windows
> Firewall. I set up a new network connection on the potential
> host for
> incoming connections. I configured users on the host to allow
> for incoming
> connections to have the proper permissions. All these steps
> I'm pretty sure
> were done correctly, since I was able to connect to the host
> from a different
> client on the LAN. However, I obviously missed something
> because when I try
> to connect from outside the lan I get this error message:
>
> "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 connecting again later. If the problem continues to
> occur,
> contact your administrator."
>
> by the way, that's me :(
>
> Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>
>



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