remote desktop driving me nuts

[triska]

Hey guys

I have a new vista business laptop and a xp pro desktop that are having a boat load of problems...

I was wondering if anyone here had any experience in getting vista to control XP Pro

Here are the steps I've done so far...

http://www.microsoft.com/windo.../northrup_03may16.mspx

Ive done those steps on the XP Pro machine...

Now I also use zonealarm which I went into the firewall settings and allowed port 3389 and I am using a westell 327w dsl modem in which I configured the same settings found on this page

http://portforward.com/english...27W/Remote_Desktop.htm

And I don't get why it wont let me connect- Must I do something to the Vista Business machine?

 

[Juno]

http://forums.anandtech.com/ca...tid=36&flcache=3641731

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[xeemzor]

You are a member since 2001 and have over 2k posts, and yet you still don't know that this is the wrong forum?

 

[Rubycon]

Try disabling the firewalls on both computers completely. If you stop alg.exe (application layer gateway in services.msc) that should work. Then try. If it works then your firewall is blocking the RDP requests. Make sure the host PC is indeed set to allow inbound remote connections.

If these are domain members check for any GPO's that may override settings.

 

[RebateMonger]

And the error message is? I've done RDP connections from Vista to XP and 2003 boxes with no problem. When going the reverse direction (TO Vista), you may need the new RDP 6.0 client on the XP and 2003 boxes.

If you are trying to do a Remote Desktop connection from an outside network, do a test from the local network first. If local connections are accepted, then you have a problem with your modem/router.

Telnet xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx 3389 will tell you if a firewall is getting in the way and if the XP computer is accepting RDP connections. About 90 percent of RDP problems are firewall-related. Temporarily turning off ALL the firewalls (NOT THAT EASY with some 3rd-party firewalls) is a first step in troubleshooting.