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[RDP] What am I missing here?
TK-42-1
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Here's the deal. I need to RDP into my Vista Ultimate machine from work, but I can't seem to find my machine from outside the network. I have both my external IP and my internal IP, port 3389 forwarded to this machine, I have it set to accept RDP and the remote machine can't find mine. I know I'm forgetting to do something simple but I can't for the life of me figure out what.
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and you'll need to make an exception on your home machine firewall to allow RDP. In case you think you've disabled the Windows firewall, I've had an update re-activate it without my knowledge.
got on my wifi and attempted it to the IP i forwarded to and it worked. *sigh*
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So RDP works, it just doesn't work on your external connection. Does your router's external IP start with 10.x.x.x , 192.168.x.x , or 172.16.x.x to 172.31.x.x ? Look it up in the router config, don't use those Find IP services on the internet. If it does, you don't have a public IP address and it won't work without some other remote control program like TeamViewer. But I don't think they have an iPhone app. If you do have an actual public IP, then your port forwarding config is not correct.
Also, your home desktop needs to either have a static IP address or if you can, you need to set up a DHCP reservation in the router so that the computer always gets the same IP.
I'm not getting what you mean when you say you've forwarded your internal IP.
On your router you will want to look into "port forwarding" or "application publishing" or some such feature. You'll want to setup a rule that forwards inbound communication on the routers external IP and port 3389 to the internal IP and port 3389 of the target machine. Once you create the rule you may have to "attach" it to a machine your router has in its address tables, and/or you may also have to enable or activate the rule. You may even have to place the machine in the routers DMZ. The specific jargon and procedures vary considerably based on the router implementation. If you provide the router model, I could check the documentation and see if I can be of more help.
Since it works on your LAN, either the router logic is not properly doing the translation, or if your router is indeed configured properly then perhaps your ISP does not allow inbound access to port 3389.