Remote Desktop Connection

[ragenet]

I am near my wits end. I am trying to use remote desktop connection from my main desktop, to my headless server that I will using BOINC on. I have turned on remote assistance, allowed it to connect to both computers. I have checked the firewall and everything is good. I have pinged both computers and they both report back. I've got both computers sharing files so they are obviously working together. But when I try to use remote desktop connection from my main to my server it just says initiating and then comes up an error. The error reads
"Remote Desktop can't connect to the remote computer for one of these reasons:
1)Remote access to the server is not enabled
2)The remote computer is turned off
3)The remote computer is not available on the network."

Please help I'm trying to avoid using team viewer because that just introduces more third party software.

 

[Kartajan]

Windows versions on server and desktop?
try running down this: http://www.howto-connect.com/windows-10-establish-remote-desktop-connection/

 

[ragenet]

Windows versions on server and desktop?
try running down this: http://www.howto-connect.com/windows-10-establish-remote-desktop-connection/

The main desktop is running Windows 10 64 bit and the server is running Windows 7 64 bit. Taking a look at the article I notice that pictures of the dialog boxes I do not have any options within my remote settings to choose users. I'm not sure if this could be the problem or not.

 

[Kartajan]

On the Windows 7 "server" you may need to allow the inbound RDP...
https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff404238.aspx


**The lions share of configuration needs to happen on your server**

 

[postmortemIA]

The main desktop is running Windows 10 64 bit and the server is running Windows 7 64 bit. Taking a look at the article I notice that pictures of the dialog boxes I do not have any options within my remote settings to choose users. I'm not sure if this could be the problem or not.

You need professional edition on the computer you are remoting to. Windows 7 home edition or Windows 10 home edition won't suffice

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/compare

 

[mxnerd]

If you are using Home Edition, your best bet is using free Teamviewer. www.temviewer.com

Register an account and you can remote control your PC. Do not have to setup port TCP or UDP forwarding.

 

[ragenet]

If you are using Home Edition, your best bet is using free Teamviewer. www.temviewer.com

Register an account and you can remote control your PC. Do not have to setup port TCP or UDP forwarding.

You need professional edition on the computer you are remoting to. Windows 7 home edition or Windows 10 home edition won't suffice

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/compare

On the Windows 7 "server" you may need to allow the inbound RDP...
https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff404238.aspx


**The lions share of configuration needs to happen on your server**

Yep that is the problem, I had no clue that remote desktop had a feature missing on home edition. Thank you for the help, I guess I'll use team viewer over LAN then. Thanks everyone!!

 

[Kartajan]

Yep that is the problem, I had no clue that remote desktop had a feature missing on home edition. Thank you for the help, I guess I'll use team viewer over LAN then. Thanks everyone!!

You could try this before running teamviewer...
http://www.softwareok.com/?seite=faq-Windows-10&faq=129