Remote Desktop

[Meractik]

i am trying to use my windows 2000 pc to access a windows XP home machine with remote desktop. i installed it from the windows XP Pro cd.

i saw on microsofts site that it doesn't come with XP home however it did have the options when you right click my computer to enable remote connections (so i enabled it) i also enabled the remote desktop services on the windows XP Home machine and enable the remote desktop port (3389) through my router for both machines. what i am trying to do is connect remotely to the xp machine from my win2k one... i want to have a user already logged in and take over that session remotely. i tried it with the user logged in and with no user logged in sitting at the login screen and it doesn't work.

i also tried to use the ip address of the pc as well as the pc name and it does not work. i keep getting an error

The Client could not connect to the remote computer.
remote connections might not be enabled or the computer might be to busy to accept new connections. it is also possible that network problems are preventing your connection.

please try connecting again later. if the problem continues to occur, contact your administrator.


this message pops up immediately upon trying to connect, it doesn't stall at all..

 

[boomerang]

I have not used Remote Desktop, but have used similar, third party apps.

In the router that the XP machine connects to, you will need to forward that port to the XP machine. You may need to assign a static IP to the XP machine to do this. The routers I have dealt with would not allow port forwarding to a MAC address, thus the requirement for a static IP.

The XP firewall should have automatically been set up for Remote Desktop upon enabling it, however any third party firewall will have to be configured.

You will have to connect from the 2000 machine to the WAN IP of the router the XP machine is connected to. How you will accomplish that using Remote Desktop I do not know.

There are many here that use Remote Desktop and hopefully someone here will jump in with the info you need.

I'm just trying to help out with a few things to think about. As I said, I have not used Remote Desktop. But I would like to know how to make it work through a router.

 

[Meractik]

both pc's have static IP addresses. i went into the port forwarding options of the router and set manually the port 3389 to allow TCP and UDP traffic on both ip's for both computers... there is no firewall on either.

 

[JackMDS]

Link to: http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/downloads/tools/rdclientdl.mspx

Link to: Set Up Remote Desktop Web Connection with Windows XP.

Link to: How to use remote Desktop Access in Windows XP.

Otherwise I use Ultr@VNC (free program). Its provides: Remote Control, File Transfer, and Chat between LAN computers or over the Internet. It takes only few minutes to set it.

Link to: Ultr@VNC - Installation, and Settings

:sun:

 

[boomerang]

Per the recommendation of JackMDS, I am using Ultr@VNC. It is very easy to set up and works very well. There are several add-ins including 128 bit encryption. My computer here and the computer I connect to are both behind routers.

I would however, suggest you download it from here, as the 205 release is better than what MajorGeeks has. Also the encryption plugin is here. Don't worry that the version numbers don't match as 118 is the recommended version of the DSM plugin. When you set it up, use the NOREG version. I had funky results with the REG version.

There are forums here.

They are very close to a v1.0 release. I have had 100% sucess with the versions I linked to above.

 

[ktwebb]

But Only Pro supports the new Remote Desktop feature, which is a single-session version of Terminal Services

Remote Desktop - All versions of Windows XP--including Home Edition--support Remote Assistance

In other words, you can use your XP home as an RDP client. It cannot however be active as the terminal server connection. Just use a remote tool as suggested. TightVNC is my personal favorite of the VNC variants however I haven't used them all and don't have any home machines in my lab and don't use any home installation otherwise so the RDP server/client native to XP pro is what I typically use instead of VNC. I so use TightVNC to get into my Linux VM's.

 

[Meractik]

alright, thanks everybody for the help.