Re: Can't connect to a distant computer with remote desktop session.

Thank you for your reply.
The RDC is enabled.
The PC is behind the Windows XP firewall, and the problem is still
here when I desactivate the firewall.
I don't use a router (I desactivated on my modem), and I enter the
public IP of my home PC.
I have a direct DSL connection.
I'm calling the right ip, and I can ping it.
I'll look at the url you sent.

On 2 juin, 20:41, "Sooner Al [MVP]" <Soone...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
The home PC, ie. the Remote Desktop [RDC] host/server, must have RDC
enabled. If the PC is behind a router or a firewall or both then you also
need TCP Port 3389 open/forwarded on the router/firewall. You call using the
public IP of the home PC if its directly connected to the internet or the
public IP of the router. So...

What type of internet connection do you have at home, ie. cable or DSL or
dialup? Keep in mind many DSL modems are also routers so you either need to
forward TCP Port 3389 or put the device in a bridge/pass-through mode.

Are you calling the correct address?

Have you forwarded/opened TCP Port 3389?

See this page for help, etc...

http://theillustratednetwork.mvps.org/RemoteDesktop/RemoteDesktopSetu...

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"Coin-coin le Canapin" <canap...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in messagenews:ezOc0YOxIHA.4376@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Hello.
I try to use the remote desktop from my work to my home computer, but it
doesn't work.
The two computers have Windows XP Pro SP2 both.
On the client, I obviously allow users to connect remotly and so on.
But it doesn't work.
I've asked some friends to try to connect to my computer, and they can't
too.
When I -from my work- (or my friends from their home) enter the client IP
and I press connect, it does nothing. It justs ask me the computer's
adress again, without any error message.
I really don't kow why.
Does someone have an idea about this problem?
And sorry for my english, i don't write this language very well.

.

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