Remote Connection Q

[seanryanie]

I am trying to connect to a remote computer and I am having some
problems. I have followed Microsofts detail in terms of establishing a
connection, but I have had no luck. Some detail below, so perhaps
someone could assist

1) I am connected over a VPN (which is up as Ican connect via
pcAnywhere)
2) I have taken the exact name of the computer as my connection name
(as per the remote tab on systems-remote and made sure I had checked
the "allow remote connection box")
3) Windows Firewall is set to off
4) Within the Excepions Remote Desktop is listed and checked, although
as I have Windows Firewall turned off I assume this is not relevant

Message displayed i "Can't find Computer on Network"

I have set-up and connected 5 similar PC's with no problem, all are
behind a sonicwall but they all have the same settings. I even tried
setting a rule to allow traffic through on port 3389 but still the same
error connection message


Thanks

 

[seanryanie]

Just to add, the PC I'm trying to connect to has WinXP Pro SP 2

 

[Guest]

if i encounter something like that, i
ping it by name aka ping remotepc
ping it by fqdn aka ping yourpc.yourdomain.local
ping it by ip aka ping 10.0.0.99

if fqdn ping replies, then your dns is not working properly.
if only ip answers, then your dns is not working or you have to ipconfig
/flushdns your names cache.

hope that solves it. if not, lets discuss your network settings in more
detail.

 

[seanryanie]

Thanks Martinez

I get a reply when I ping using the computers IP, standard reply info.
However I can't ping by computer name. I don't have a domain network,
but work off a workgroup, but as I said in my post the other 5 PC's re
setup the exact same (or as far as I can see).

I just tried connecting using the computers IP address and BINGO I've
got in. I can't understand it. I tried earlier today and couldn't. Why
can I connect by IP and not by Computer name?

 

[Guest]

most often it happens because remote pc gets new ip from dhcp.
however your pc dont know it and has old ip assosiated with this name.

do start-run cmd and then
ipconfig /flushdns

or you can do
start run cmd
nslookup

and see, if your dns is configured properly.

 

[seanryanie]

Thanks for all your help Martinez

What exactly does your two commands below do?

1) do start-run cmd and then
ipconfig /flushdns
2) start run cmd
nslookup

 

[seanryanie]

When I connect remotely to a PC using Admin rights a message comes up
on the Remote PC "xyz/abc is trying to connect to this computer", the
Remote user has only limited rights but they still have the ability to
deny access by saying No to the message above, which is causing me
problems. There appears to be a 10 sec delay or so, that if after 10
secs the Remote user has not accepted Yes or No, then I can connect.

I can understand the need for this Re Security etc, but is there anyway
around?

Thanks