Need Help Setting Up RDP Connection For First Time...

[Guest]

Quick rundown of my situation...

I am trying to access my work PC (running WinXP Pro) from my home PC
(running WinXP Pro). My 'office' is simply 2 PC's connected through a high
speed cable router (not wireless). My home PC is connected wirelessly to a
high speed cable router.

I have disconnected the firewalls on both PC's. I have enabled "Allow users
to connect remotely to this computer'. I have checked to see if Port 3389 is
'listening'.
I have read almost every post on this board and still have to come up with
an answer.

By the by...the error message I keep getting is the same every time:

'The client could not connect to the remote computer.

Remote connections might not be enabled or computer might be too busy to
accept new connections. It is also possible that 'network problems' are
affecting your connection.'

Any and all help would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you in advance!!

John

 

[Shenan Stanley]

Quick rundown of my situation...

I am trying to access my work PC (running WinXP Pro) from my home PC
(running WinXP Pro). My 'office' is simply 2 PC's connected through
a high speed cable router (not wireless). My home PC is connected
wirelessly to a high speed cable router.

I have disconnected the firewalls on both PC's. I have enabled
"Allow users to connect remotely to this computer'. I have checked
to see if Port 3389 is 'listening'.
I have read almost every post on this board and still have to come
up with an answer.

By the by...the error message I keep getting is the same every time:

'The client could not connect to the remote computer.

Remote connections might not be enabled or computer might be too
busy to accept new connections. It is also possible that 'network
problems' are affecting your connection.'

Both 'office' PCs have actual EXTERNAL IPs and are not actually getting a
private internal IP?
If not - you have to configure port forwarding on the 'office' router.

 

[Guest]

Thank you Stanley.

Admittedly, I am not the most computer savvy person in the world, which is
why I decided to post here, but I did go to CMD - IPCONFIG and took the IP
address that was on my work (host) PC and entered that in when prompted on my
home (client) PC upon starting up RDC.

Is that not what needed to be done?

How do I go about configuring port forwarding on my work PC?

Thanks again.

 

[Shenan Stanley]

Thank you Stanley.

Admittedly, I am not the most computer savvy person in the world,
which is why I decided to post here, but I did go to CMD - IPCONFIG
and took the IP address that was on my work (host) PC and entered
that in when prompted on my home (client) PC upon starting up RDC.

Is that not what needed to be done?

How do I go about configuring port forwarding on my work PC?

Has little to do with your computer and mostly to do with the router device.

 

[Guest]

I suggest www.portforward.com They helped me VERY MUCH!