help! why cannot remote connect XP laptop to Vista Home PC?

[LunaMoon]

I knew Vista Home does not allow remote desktop connection to it.
I followed some online hack and install some Terminal Service hack
file.
It worked when my laptop Windows XP sits close to the Vista HOME PC,
when the laptop is using wireless and the Vista is using Internet LAN
connection. I made sure my Kaspasky Internet Security Firewall is open
for RDP port.
But the moment when I move out of my home, and bring the laptop to an
outside network, I cann't connect to the Vista Home PC anymore.
Any thoughts?
If RDP to Vista is not an option. What is the next best remote
connection software that allows smooth file transform and clipboard
transfer, as seamless as RDP?
Thanks!

 

[Rick Rogers]

Hi,

From your description I am assuming that at home you are behind a router? If
so, then you need to log into the router and configure port forwarding on
3389 to the internal IP of the Vista Home PC. Otherwise, requests that
originate from an external source will be ignored by the router and never
even reach the taget machine.

--
Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
My thoughts http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com

 

[Mike Brannigan]

I knew Vista Home does not allow remote desktop connection to it.
I followed some online hack and install some Terminal Service hack
file.
It worked when my laptop Windows XP sits close to the Vista HOME PC,
when the laptop is using wireless and the Vista is using Internet LAN
connection. I made sure my Kaspasky Internet Security Firewall is open
for RDP port.
But the moment when I move out of my home, and bring the laptop to an
outside network, I cann't connect to the Vista Home PC anymore.
Any thoughts?
If RDP to Vista is not an option. What is the next best remote
connection software that allows smooth file transform and clipboard
transfer, as seamless as RDP?
Thanks!

You may also wish to consider that you are now in violation of your license
for Windows Vista by hacking the version you have to have to gain access to
features you have not paid for or are licensed to use.
Frankly, with your disregard for licensing and paying for what you use, you
might have well as just stolen (aka downloaded) a version of Ultimate
Edition instead.

 

[LunaMoon]

Hi,

From your description I am assuming that at home you are behind a router?If
so, then you need to log into the router and configure port forwarding on
3389 to the internal IP of the Vista Home PC. Otherwise, requests that
originate from an external source will be ignored by the router and never
even reach the taget machine.

--
Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVPhttp://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
Windows help -www.rickrogers.org
My thoughtshttp://rick-mvp.blogspot.com

Okay! I have no way of configuring the router.
Any other next best remote control software?

 

[Rick Rogers]

Hi,

https://secure.logmein.com/home.asp?lang=en seems to be pretty popular and I
understand it's easy to use.

--
Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
My thoughts http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com

Hi,

From your description I am assuming that at home you are behind a router?
If
so, then you need to log into the router and configure port forwarding on
3389 to the internal IP of the Vista Home PC. Otherwise, requests that
originate from an external source will be ignored by the router and never
even reach the taget machine.

--
Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft
MVPhttp://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
Windows help -www.rickrogers.org
My thoughtshttp://rick-mvp.blogspot.com

Okay! I have no way of configuring the router.
Any other next best remote control software?

 

[Bruce Chambers]

Okay! I have no way of configuring the router.
Any other next best remote control software?

Without being able to properly configuring the router, no software
product would be of any use.


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[Curious]

Why can you not configure the router?
If you read the router user guide from the router's CD or from the
manufacturers Website you should be able to reset the router to its defaults
so you can log on to it from your PC.
What make/model router do you have?

 

[Patrick Keenan]

Hi,

From your description I am assuming that at home you are behind a router?
If
so, then you need to log into the router and configure port forwarding on
3389 to the internal IP of the Vista Home PC. Otherwise, requests that
originate from an external source will be ignored by the router and never
even reach the taget machine.

--
Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft
MVPhttp://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
Windows help -www.rickrogers.org
My thoughtshttp://rick-mvp.blogspot.com

Okay! I have no way of configuring the router.
Any other next best remote control software?
==============

If you can't configure the router, you're stuck.

HTH
-pk

 

[Patrick Keenan]

Why can you not configure the router?

I would suspect that the OP is not *allowed* to do so.

 

[Chad Harris]

Okay! I have no way of configuring the router.
Any other next best remote control software?

Whoa Luna Moon--

***Something I saw makes no sense.*** If in fact you are behind a router,
and I'm guessing you are, it makes no sense that you say you have ***no way
of configuring the router.*** Who makes your router? I'll tell you who to
call that will walk you through configuring that router + most router makers
have screen shot steps or someone does on the web. Help me with the concept
that

a) you have a router
b) you lack the way to configure it

We can show you how to get the router configured.

Best,

CH

 

[Chad Harris]

Okay! I have no way of configuring the router.
Any other next best remote control software?

Yo--

Why are you zooming the thread. I know enough to know when someone says
something that makes no sense in most of these threads and you're making
absolutely no sense.

It goes down like this. If the router is controlled by someone else in your
home or in your business and you have don't have access to it, you're
screwed.

If you refuse to configure the router you're screwed.

Either way, my gavel is down and I sentence you to a lifetime of you're
screwed vis a vis your situation with that router. And you have no appeal.
So it is written, and so it shall be.

Do not waste people's time when for some goofy reason you either don't have
access to the router or won't lift a finger to configure it.

CH

 

[Malcolm McCaffery]

Generally logmein will work , with no router configuration, because it uses
standard web traffic ports.

Available here https://secure.logmein.com/home.asp?lang=en

but it does mean trusting access to your PC to a 3rd party.

Also live mesh from microsoft http://www.mesh.com will work in a similar
way. I have used it to successfully connect to Windows Vista x64 Home
Premium across the internet, with no router configuration.

regards,

Malcolm.

 

[Mike Brannigan]

No point in helping the man, right? I mean, it's far easier to just
pontificate about licensing.

Good thing others are actually interested in being helpful, unlike you.

Bill,

There is no help available since the feature he is questioning about is NOT
available on the edition of Windows Vista he has paid for and is licensed to
use.
So no help was offered as none was required to be given.
If the original poster requires feature that is available in a certain
edition of Window Vista then the correct "answer" is for them to buy the
version that includes that feature.