Remote desktop connection setting not allowed on remote PC

[Guest]

I have a PC in a workgroup with XP SP2 installed. The firewall is turned on
and file and print sharing is enabled as an exception. I want to be able to
RDP into this PC and use my printer installed on my PC. I enabled the
settings on the RDP client but when I remote in it either says the files are
missing or it just isn't available. I tried installing the printer on the
remote PC and turning off the firewall. I haven't looked at the local policy
yet but other remote PC's work fine and to my knowledge the policy is set to
the default. any ideas?

 

[Sooner Al [MVP]]

Is the remote PC running XP Home? If so you can't use RDP to remotely
access/control the PC. An alternative may be UltraVNC...

If the PC is running XP Pro did you enable RDP? Also you need to allow TCP
Port 3389 through any firewall. See this page for help...

http://theillustratednetwork.mvps.org/RemoteDesktop/RemoteDesktopSetupandTroubleshooting.html

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[Guest]

They are running XP Pro.
The problem is not getting a connection. Once I log into the PC my local
printer aren't available.