Connecting to my home PC whilst I am at work

[Guest]

I have been trying to connect to my home PC via my PC at work. I know that my
home PC & router configuration is correct because I can connect to it from
elsewhere using either an IP address or Dynamic DNS name and this works fine.

The problem is connecting from work. My PC is on a network on a domain. Port
3389 is open. The domain accounts have been checked and are identical to
other PCs which allow connections so the problem appears to be with the
individual machine. Windows Firewall is enabled but the RDC exception is
ticked and the scope is for any computer (even with windows firewall turned
off this makes no difference). I have tried everything that I can but I
cannot get it to connect across the internet to my PC at home. I can specify
any other PC on the LAN either by name or IP address and it will connect
without any problem but it won't connect to an external PC that isn't on the
LAN. I don't know what else to try and any suggestions would be greatly
appreciated.

Both PCs have XP Pro installed

 

[Shenan Stanley]

I have been trying to connect to my home PC via my PC at work. I
know that my home PC & router configuration is correct because I
can connect to it from elsewhere using either an IP address or
Dynamic DNS name and this works fine.

The problem is connecting from work. My PC is on a network on a
domain. Port 3389 is open. The domain accounts have been checked
and are identical to other PCs which allow connections so the
problem appears to be with the individual machine. Windows Firewall
is enabled but the RDC exception is ticked and the scope is for any
computer (even with windows firewall turned off this makes no
difference). I have tried everything that I can but I cannot get it
to connect across the internet to my PC at home. I can specify any
other PC on the LAN either by name or IP address and it will
connect without any problem but it won't connect to an external PC
that isn't on the LAN. I don't know what else to try and any
suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Both PCs have XP Pro installed

I do not understand then, what you are asking.

If you can connect to your home machine from anywhere *but* work, then your
home machine setup is correct. Your work machine configuration *really*
does not matter - what does matter is if the work network configuration
(something you do not have control of unless you are the network admin) and
if they have done anything to limit your ability to connect out.

You need to talk to those who run your network at work.

 

[Guest]

I know my home setup is correct and only mentioned that to rule it out. My
work network configuration allow RDC from other PCs but not the one that I
want to use so it appears to be something different with this PC and I don't
believe it is a network/domain issue.

What I am asking therefore is what could be configured on my PC at work to
prevent it making a Remote Desktop Connection to an external IP address when
Remote Desktop works flawlessly to other PCs on the LAN?

 

[Shenan Stanley]

Shenan Stanley wrote:

I have been trying to connect to my home PC via my PC at work. I
know that my home PC & router configuration is correct because I
can connect to it from elsewhere using either an IP address or
Dynamic DNS name and this works fine.

The problem is connecting from work. My PC is on a network on a
domain. Port 3389 is open. The domain accounts have been checked
and are identical to other PCs which allow connections so the
problem appears to be with the individual machine. Windows
Firewall is enabled but the RDC exception is ticked and the scope
is for any computer (even with windows firewall turned off this
makes no difference). I have tried everything that I can but I
cannot get it to connect across the internet to my PC at home. I
can specify any other PC on the LAN either by name or IP address
and it will connect without any problem but it won't connect to
an external PC that isn't on the LAN. I don't know what else to
try and any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Both PCs have XP Pro installed

I do not understand then, what you are asking.

If you can connect to your home machine from anywhere *but* work,
then your home machine setup is correct. Your work machine
configuration *really* does not matter - what does matter is if
the work network configuration (something you do not have control
of unless you are the network admin) and if they have done
anything to limit your ability to connect out.

You need to talk to those who run your network at work.

I know my home setup is correct and only mentioned that to rule it
out. My work network configuration allow RDC from other PCs but not
the one that I want to use so it appears to be something different
with this PC and I don't believe it is a network/domain issue.

What I am asking therefore is what could be configured on my PC at
work to prevent it making a Remote Desktop Connection to an
external IP address when Remote Desktop works flawlessly to other
PCs on the LAN?

Nothing.

So from any machine at work OTHER THAN this one machine you describe you can
remote to your home PC?

Tried using a different Remote Desktop Client?