Re: Remote Desktop problem

I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong but I'm not able to access my home desktop
from my laptop when I'm at work. I have an older Linksys router BEFW11S4 ver.
4. Does that matter?

"GDY" wrote:

Thanks guys. I think I correctly made the changes to my router. I'll find out
the next time I go to the office. I'll be sure to reply here to let you know.

"John John (MVP)" wrote:

When you're at home you are on the same side of the router as the host,
you are in a local area network (LAN) and routers usually allow almost
all traffic between machines within the LAN. When you are at work you
are on the "other" side of the router, you are not part of the same LAN
as the host, the router blocks all traffic trying to enter the LAN, that
is it's job, it only allows traffic that originates as a result of a
request from a machine from inside the LAN, for example a machine asks
for a web page, the request came from a machine inside so the router
allows the web page to reach the machine that made the request. You
need to open a port (the default port is TCP 3389) in your router to
allow the traffic from the client to the host.

John

GDY wrote:
Hi,

My host computer is my home desktop and my client computer is my laptop. I
can access my host computer from my client computer when my laptop is at
home. But I can not access my host computer from my client computer when I'm
at my boss's office. Any idea's why? I'm not the most knowledgeable with
computer terms so you may need to make it very simplified.

.

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