Remote Desktop Connection (RDC) - Network

Jonathan_King · 16 Jul 2010

I suggest the free alternative TeamViewer.

TeamViewer - Free Remote Access and Remote Desktop Sharing over the Internet

It's not quite the same, but once you get to know it, it works okay for remote desktop.

yousaf465 · 12 Aug 2010

How to use remote desktop b etween a win7 and win xp ?

Ozark · 12 Aug 2010

yousaf465 said:

How to use remote desktop b etween a win7 and win xp ?

Read my reply, it worked for me with the download. What version of XP do you have? Again my reply tells you what does and does not work.

Zain · 08 Sep 2010

Hi

I cant seem to be able to remote desktop to an XP SP3 machine from my Windows 7 pro desktop. My colleague who has an XP SP3 desktop can remote desktop fine to the other XP SP3 machine.

Can i get some help on this please?

Thanks

Jonathan_King · 08 Sep 2010

Zain said:

Hi

I cant seem to be able to remote desktop to an XP SP3 machine from my Windows 7 pro desktop. My colleague who has an XP SP3 desktop can remote desktop fine to the other XP SP3 machine.

Can i get some help on this please?

Thanks

Hello Zain,

Make sure any firewalls on your client are disabled.

yousaf465 · 19 Sep 2010

I tried teamviewer as recommended by Jonathan_King and it worked like a charm no hassle. You just have to share the id and password and it works. I even tried between mac and xp both worked perfectly.

xTL · 19 Sep 2010

this thread is perfect for my question :)

is there a way to change the target location like in my 3rd picture, so it don't start like the 2nd picture, but it start right away, like it would after i pressed the " Connect with Remote Desktop Connection, in my 1st picture ? :)

Appreciate all the help i can get :)

Jonathan_King · 19 Sep 2010

xTL said:

this thread is perfect for my question :)

is there a way to change the target location like in my 3rd picture, so it don't start like the 2nd picture, but it start right away, like it would after i pressed the " Connect with Remote Desktop Connection, in my 1st picture ? :)

Appreciate all the help i can get :)

Have you tried this?

Remote Desktop Connection (RDC) - Network-capture.png

xTL · 19 Sep 2010

Jonathan_King, thank you for pointing out that im obviously blind =D

ofcorz thats how you do it =), well i guess hours and hours of searching google, sitting and clicking settings trying diffrent stuff, makes one blind ^^..

Thx +rep :)

ericsene · 28 Sep 2010

I'm having the same problem described below. My host machine is running Win7 Pro 32Bit, and I'm able to connect to it from WITHIN my home network using a laptop running Vista Home Premium, but cannot for the life of me connect from outside my home. I'm attempting to connect to my home PC (Win7 Pro) from my office. My office PC is running WinXP PRO SP3. I've forwarded ports through my router and beleive everything is configured accordingly.

mtkCTU said:

I'm having exactly the same problem. My laptop is 7 Ultimate and the desktop is 7 Pro. I disabled Kaspersky firewall on both thinking it might be a trusted zone thing, but still won't work through the router. Has anyone figure this out yet?

Thanks.

Xality said:

Yup, port 3389 is forwarding to the PC with Win7, and the PC with Win7 is accepting RDC automatically...

I beleive that the PC with Win7 is properly configured because I can use RDC from my laptop (WinXP) to connect to it if I input the Win7's local IP address to connect to...

so this works:

Laptop ---->LAN-----> Win7

but this doesnt:

Laptop----->Internet----->Router------>Win7