Troubleshooting Remote Desktop Connection

[Orbs]

Hi Everyone. Thanks in advance for your help. OK, here's my problem...

I have a XP Pro running at home. It is setup to host RDC. I'm port forwarding through NAT and XP Firewall is set to allow RDC.

I have two pc's at work. PC1 is able to connect to my home PC via RDC (in fact I'm posting this from my home PC while at work). PC2 is not able to connect to my home PC or any other PC for that matter (on or off the work network), via RDC.

PC2 can access the web just fine, runs IM apps, email etc.

PC1 and PC2 are both running XP Pro w/ SP2. Both are plugged into the same router.

Any help getting RDC on PC2 to work would be greatly appreciated!
Jared

 

[JackMDS]

Assuming that your work IT allows such activites.

Two LAN IPs can not use the same ports through the Firewall.

On RDT need to be configured with none default ports and then have its own Virtual Server entries.

:sun:

 

[Orbs]

My work allows this, and as I said, PC1 is able to connect just fine.

I'm not sure what you mean by "Two LAN IPs can not use the same ports through the Firewall. "

I'm not trying to connect PC1 and PC2 at the same time. I'm saying that if I log off PC1 so that my home PC is not connected at all, PC2 still won't connect. If I try to connect PC2 to PC1, it won't work.

It seems as though the RDC Client on PC2 at work is messed up somehow. Any other ideas?

 

[ktwebb]

Easy to tell if it is the RDP client no? Try remoting into another machine that has RD enabled and you have the proper permissions on it.

 

[Orbs]

I'm not sure what RDP is. I think it's the Remote Desktop Connection client on PC2 that's messed. Does that make sense?

 

[dawks]

RDP is "Remote Desktop Protocol". And yes, thats what ktwebb is saying. Try testing the RDC (Remote Desktop Client) on PC2 by connecting to another system, perhaps PC1.

 

[Orbs]

No luck connecting to PC1 .

I think it's the client on PC2. Any way to fix or replace this (w/o reinstalling the OS)?

 

[dawks]

Try reinstalling the RDC

 

[jbritt1234]

Do you have a software firewall on PC2? It could be blocking you. To test quickly, just disable if for a minute, then try to connect.