remote host help

[cory]

I am trying to connect to my brothers compuer using
remote assistance (or remote desktop - either way) and
every time I accept his invitation - I type in the
password and I get the following message:

Remote Assistance connection could not be established
because the remote host name could not be resolved.
Please try again.

Any ideas? He has a Linksys router and has opened port 47
and 1723 (from linksys website). I can't believe that
this is that hard to do....

 

[Carey Frisch [MVP]]

Troubleshooting Remote Assistance Issues
http://www.chicagotech.net/rdesktop.htm

"When you receive an invitation from an Internet user whose
computer is behind a router or firewall, the IP sent to you is
the Private IP behind the router or firewall, so that you can't
access the computer. To fix this issue: 1) use Notepad to open
the invitation to change the Private IP to the Public IP which
may be the router or firewall's IP. 2) Use Windows Messenger
to establish the Remote Assistance session".

--
Carey Frisch
Microsoft MVP
Windows XP - Shell/User

Be Smart! Protect Your PC!
http://www.microsoft.com/athome/security/protect/default.aspx

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| I am trying to connect to my brothers compuer using
| remote assistance (or remote desktop - either way) and
| every time I accept his invitation - I type in the
| password and I get the following message:
|
| Remote Assistance connection could not be established
| because the remote host name could not be resolved.
| Please try again.
|
| Any ideas? He has a Linksys router and has opened port 47
| and 1723 (from linksys website). I can't believe that
| this is that hard to do....

 

[Guest]

Thanks - but that didn't work either...

Here is the line I replaced
RCTICKET="65538,1,69.149.219.220:3389;ooops:3389

Is there anything else I need to do?