At my office, I have DSL using a DLink wireless router. When my laptop is at
the office, I can successfully use remote desktop to connect to my office
computer (I did this only to test my remote desktop settings). In this way I
can connect using either the computer name or the IP address that I get from
a command prompt using IPCONFIG. When I do this from my home it will not
work - I get the message that:

"The client could not connect to the rempte computer. Remote connections
might not be enabled . . . "

Someone told me that the IP address that I got from the command prompt is
not the correct one, that I should go to google, and search for my IP address
- which I did. I received a different IP address, but that did not work
either.

In reading items in this newsgroup, someone said that port 3389 need to be
enabled in my DLink router. Dlink tech support helped me do this - Still
doesn't work from home.

Any ideas would be appreciated.

Reply to message from "Skip Belsky" <(E-Mail Removed)> (Fri, 06 Jan
2006 16:57:02) about "Connecting my laptop to my office computer using remote desktop":

> At my office, I have DSL using a DLink wireless router. When my laptop is at the
> office, I can successfully use remote desktop to connect to my office computer (I did
> this only to test my remote desktop settings). In this way I can connect using either
> the computer name or the IP address that I get from a command prompt using IPCONFIG.
> When I do this from my home it will not work - I get the message that:

> "The client could not connect to the rempte computer. Remote connections might not be
> enabled . . . "

> Someone told me that the IP address that I got from the command prompt is not the
> correct one, that I should go to google, and search for my IP address
> - which I did. I received a different IP address, but that did not work either.

> In reading items in this newsgroup, someone said that port 3389 need to be enabled in
> my DLink router. Dlink tech support helped me do this - Still doesn't work from home.

> Any ideas would be appreciated.

See this page for help...

http://theillustratednetwork.mvps.or...roubleshooting.
html

Basically you need to call the office PC using the public IP of the router or use a fully
qualified domain name.

------
Al Jarvi (MS-MVP Windows Networking)

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Skip Belsky wrote:
> At my office, I have DSL using a DLink wireless router. When my
> laptop is at the office, I can successfully use remote desktop to
> connect to my office computer (I did this only to test my remote
> desktop settings). In this way I can connect using either the
> computer name or the IP address that I get from a command prompt
> using IPCONFIG. When I do this from my home it will not work - I
> get the message that:
>
> "The client could not connect to the rempte computer. Remote
> connections might not be enabled . . . "
>
> Someone told me that the IP address that I got from the command
> prompt is not the correct one, that I should go to google, and
> search for my IP address - which I did. I received a different IP
> address, but that did not work either.
>
> In reading items in this newsgroup, someone said that port 3389
> need to be enabled in my DLink router. Dlink tech support helped
> me do this - Still doesn't work from home.
>
> Any ideas would be appreciated.

Let me try and clear things up here (about your question)..

You have a laptop and a work desktop.

When both the laptop and desktop are connected to the same network (at work)
you can connect to your work desktop from your laptop.

When you take your laptop home, you cannot connect to your work desktop from
your laptop.

You would need your work DSL router's IP address (not your private internal
IP) and you would have to configure the router to allow port 3389 to forward
to your desktop machine's private (internal) IP address.. (Not "enable",
but "forward".)

--
Shenan Stanley
MS-MVP
--
How To Ask Questions The Smart Way
http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html

Shenan - Thank you for the information. I actually understand. I will try
to do this tomorrow at the office.

"Shenan Stanley" wrote:

> Skip Belsky wrote:
> > At my office, I have DSL using a DLink wireless router. When my
> > laptop is at the office, I can successfully use remote desktop to
> > connect to my office computer (I did this only to test my remote
> > desktop settings). In this way I can connect using either the
> > computer name or the IP address that I get from a command prompt
> > using IPCONFIG. When I do this from my home it will not work - I
> > get the message that:
> >
> > "The client could not connect to the rempte computer. Remote
> > connections might not be enabled . . . "
> >
> > Someone told me that the IP address that I got from the command
> > prompt is not the correct one, that I should go to google, and
> > search for my IP address - which I did. I received a different IP
> > address, but that did not work either.
> >
> > In reading items in this newsgroup, someone said that port 3389
> > need to be enabled in my DLink router. Dlink tech support helped
> > me do this - Still doesn't work from home.
> >
> > Any ideas would be appreciated.
>
> Let me try and clear things up here (about your question)..
>
> You have a laptop and a work desktop.
>
> When both the laptop and desktop are connected to the same network (at work)
> you can connect to your work desktop from your laptop.
>
> When you take your laptop home, you cannot connect to your work desktop from
> your laptop.
>
> You would need your work DSL router's IP address (not your private internal
> IP) and you would have to configure the router to allow port 3389 to forward
> to your desktop machine's private (internal) IP address.. (Not "enable",
> but "forward".)
>
> --
> Shenan Stanley
> MS-MVP
> --
> How To Ask Questions The Smart Way
> http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
>
>
>