Setup questions

[Dan Cordell]

I want to access my win 2000 machine from home with my xp machine. I
downloaded the remote desk top application for win2000 from Microsoft but am
having trouble configuring everything. At home I have DSL through a linksys
wireless router to my laptop. At work I have DSL through an SMC7004BVR
Barricade router. My ISP is the same for both work and home and have
assigned static IP to each of us. Those IPs are in the routers and each
computer is assigned local IPs. When I go to myipaddress.com for my IP I
get a different address than assigned by my IP and this is the same on all
machines on the network. When I do ipconfig on each machine I get the
normal 192.168.2.xxx for each machine. I've assigned a static IP to my
win2000 machine in this range and listed it in the router to pass through to
but am unable to connect to each other. I can ping the IP returned from
myipaddress.com for the win2000 but can't ping the IP for the xp machine
from the 2000 machine.

What am I missing here?

 

[Tim Warner]

Hi Dan,

If I read your question correctly, you said that you downloaded the
Microsoft Remote Desktop Connection client for your Windows 2000
Professional box and you want to RDP into it from your Windows XP Pro
computer. Correct?

Unless I'm missing something fundamental here, no can do. The RDC
client is an outbound-only piece of software. You can use it to
establish an RDP session from your Win2K computer to your Windows XP
computer (assuming you've allowed TCP port 3389 on your
software/hardware firewalls, routers, etc.), but not the other way
around.

I would recommend TightVNC or something similar for your needs (shop
around).

Kind regards,
Tim