Re: Remote Desktop Question

See this page for troubleshooting help...

http://theillustratednetwork.mvps.org/RemoteDesktop/RemoteDesktopSetupandTroubleshooting.html

Make sure your calling the correct private static LAN IP for the laptop.

Its possible ZoneAlarm is causing the problem. If your using the free
version I don't believe you can configure ZA for port forwarding. You can, I
believe, configure ZA Pro for port forwarding...

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"CK" <CK@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:64DD3C39-36E7-473D-80E4-2C373F6B09C9@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Let me start by saying i know almost nothing about networking. I've got
> two
> computers connected through a linksys wrt54g router. I've been trying to
> connect to a laptop running xp-pro (host) from a desktop running xp-home
> (client). Both have firewalls which are configured to allow whatever from
> each other. They share files and a printer and ping each other nicely.
> Here
> is the error message I get sometimes while trying to log in:
>
> "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 agian later. If the problem continues to occur,
> contact your administrator."
>
> Unfortunately I'm the administrator and I have no idea. I'm thinking its
> either the router config. or more likely the software policing firewall on
> the host (zonealarm). It still wont work with the fw disabled however. I
> actually got it load halfway one time before froze up and crashed.
>
> Can anyone give me any suggestions on how to get ths to work?


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