Remote Desktop failure

26 Aug 2006 2:51 PM

David Sherman

I am trying to connect to a Windows XP machine via RDC.

Both machines have a Linksys router. I have opened up port 3889 on the
router and redirected it to the machine that I want to connect to.

When I type in the IP address, I get a message:

The client could not connect to the remote computer.

Any ideas how I can get connected?

thanks

26 Aug 2006 4:58 PM

Sooner Al [MVP]

Did you really mean TCP Port 3389 or is 3889 a typo? Can you connect to the
PC from another PC on the same LAN using the private static LAN IP? Any
personal firewall software running on the PC that may be blocking incoming
RDP requests?

Beyond that see the troubleshooting section...

http://theillustratednetwork.mvps.org/RemoteDesktop/RemoteDesktopSetupandTroubleshooting.html#Troubleshooting

Make sure your using the correct public IP of the router...

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"David Sherman" <dsher***@ameritech.net> wrote in message
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>I am trying to connect to a Windows XP machine via RDC.
>
> Both machines have a Linksys router. I have opened up port 3889 on the
> router and redirected it to the machine that I want to connect to.
>
> When I type in the IP address, I get a message:
>
> The client could not connect to the remote computer.
>
> Any ideas how I can get connected?
>
> thanks

27 Aug 2006 1:32 PM

David Sherman

I might 3389.

On Sat, 26 Aug 2006 11:58:58 -0500, "Sooner Al [MVP]"
<Soone***@somewhere.net.invalid> wrote:

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>Did you really mean TCP Port 3389 or is 3889 a typo? Can you connect to the
>PC from another PC on the same LAN using the private static LAN IP? Any
>personal firewall software running on the PC that may be blocking incoming
>RDP requests?
>
>Beyond that see the troubleshooting section...
>
>http://theillustratednetwork.mvps.org/RemoteDesktop/RemoteDesktopSetupandTroubleshooting.html#Troubleshooting
>
>Make sure your using the correct public IP of the router...

27 Aug 2006 11:10 PM

David Sherman

I tried again.

Errors again. I disabled both Zone Alarm and Norton 2005.

Real VNC, I get an connection error. I guess a time out error.

RDC.-- I get this error:
Because of a protocol error at the client (0x1104), the session will
be disconnected.