Remote Desktop

[MustangNazMedia]

I am having a little problem trying to remote desktop from outside of the my home computer. When I am at home it works fine.

I have a belkin router, running cable.
I can get logmein.com, or jumimouse to work fine.

The virtual server is forwarded to 192.168.1.7(server) which is the computer that I want to be able to remote desktop. And is set to port 3389 to that computer.
It seems like it wants to connect, but does not want to. in the computer name i have it listed as server.

The reason I want to use remote desktop is so I can use the sound feature, that way I can edit the video with out having to be there.
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Any idears?

[riafekim]

Can you remote desktop from within the network?

[sempei13]

Networking isn't my primary forte, but don't you need to end the computer ip address with : portnumber? So let's say your ip address is 123.45.67.89 and you were using port 3389, I think you need to put the ip address in as "123.45.67.89:3389" (without the quotes of course).

Try that and see if it does the trick.

Paul

[greg4god]

To determine if it just a case of not having the correct ports open/forwarding, you can try looking for a setting to a DMZ to forward ALL incoming traffic to a specific internal IP. DO THIS TEMPORARILY, turned on to test the connection, then shut back off immediately after you see results.

If when you do this, you can get into the system, then this would indicate that the router needs another port opened/forwarded. If you still cannot get in, then I would check for some setting on the server that limits incoming requests only from your internal network.

I'm not sure which ports and/or where settings may be to change those, but that would be the things I would check at this point.

I know I gave up trying to get VPN set up on my system before, could not get it to work from remote, ended up just running Hamachi (from logmein).

-Greg

[MustangNazMedia]

yep within the network, no issues.

[Tekguy]

If you purchase Logmein Pro it will forward the sound to the remote computer.
Also use can use Hamachi from Logmein to create a software VPN - Install Hamachi on the host and remote and it will assign each one a IP address, start RDP and put in the IP that Hamachi assigned the host computer and your off to the races no fiddling with port forwarding.

[Tekguy]

I bet that the Login box that you are receiving is from the router, it's not forwarding the port correctly.

[Gracetech]

I agree with Tekguy. It appears that the external address you gave RDC is hitting your router and hanging up. Most routers block RDC by default. Clear that port and you should be golden.

Just curious but do you have a static ip to your network?

crt

[MustangNazMedia]

Do not have a static for the cable modem but we have ddyns set up so it is automaticlly updated. The local ip is static

Just like a webpage

[MustangNazMedia]

I am not sure what is going on with it, just as a test I have set the belkin router to DMZ to the (mediapc) local ip 192.168.2.3 all ports are open, Even open the port for RDP 3383

I did make the 192.168.3 a static ip so it will not change.

Still getting the pop up, but will will not connect.

The host pc has win 7 x64, I am trying to connect from Win XP Pro. Does that make a difference?

[MustangNazMedia]

Good news friends, got it working. Come to find out my work was blocking that program from outside the network. Thing is you have to forward the port in the router to the local ip.

for computer name just type in the ip, nothing on the back tab.
and then it pops up for the username/password. WORKS GREAT.

The host pc is windows 7, I have been able to remote in with win 7/XP Pro.

Thanks for all of your help. I have learned a lot.
Paul Wood