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Damian Wagner - 08 Sep 2007 07:54 GMT

I am unable to connect to my XP box OUTSIDE of my home network.

When I am at home I have NO problem connecting, everything works
flawlessly.

When I am away from home I cannot, for the life of me, figure out how
to connect to my XP box. I know my main IP address for my cable
modem, my router passwords etc., and the in-network IP (192.168...)
for my XP box.

Any help is appreciated. Thanks in advance!

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Vera Noest [MVP] - 08 Sep 2007 09:24 GMT

Have you configured your router to forward incoming traffic on port
3389 to the private IP number of your XP box?
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Damian Wagner <wsupikapp@gmail.com> wrote on 08 sep 2007 in
microsoft.public.mac.rdc:

> I am unable to connect to my XP box OUTSIDE of my home network.
>
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> Any help is appreciated. Thanks in advance!

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Damian Wagner - 10 Sep 2007 07:41 GMT

On Sep 8, 1:24 am, "Vera Noest [MVP]" <vera.no...@remove-
this.hem.utfors.se> wrote:

> Have you configured your router to forward incoming traffic on port
> 3389 to the private IP number of your XP box?
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> > Any help is appreciated. Thanks in advance!

I have made that adjustment to my router but HOW do I connect from,
say, across the state? What would I need to put into the actual RDC
connect field?

Thanks!

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Vera Noest [MVP] - 10 Sep 2007 13:23 GMT

Damian Wagner <wsupikapp@gmail.com> wrote on 10 sep 2007:

> On Sep 8, 1:24 am, "Vera Noest [MVP]" <vera.no...@remove-
> this.hem.utfors.se> wrote:
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> Thanks!

Your public IP address.
If the router is correctly configured, then it will forward the
incoming RDC traffic to your XP box.

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Damian Wagner - 11 Sep 2007 09:05 GMT

On Sep 10, 5:23 am, "Vera Noest [MVP]" <Vera.No...@remove-
this.hem.utfors.se> wrote:

> Damian Wagner <wsupik...@gmail.com> wrote on 10 sep 2007:
>
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> TS troubleshooting: http://ts.veranoest.net
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I've now had to remove RDC. Turns out it was the reason my network
kept crashing.

Here's hoping for an alpha release... (yeah right)

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William Smith - 23 Sep 2007 21:21 GMT

> I've now had to remove RDC. Turns out it was the reason my network
> kept crashing.
>
> Here's hoping for an alpha release... (yeah right)

Hi Damian!

I've read this thread but you don't mention which version of RDC you're
using. Current release version is 1.0.3 but Microsoft does have a public
beta for RDC 2.0 available here
<http://www.microsoft.com/mac/downloads.aspx?pid=download&location=/mac/download/
MISC/RDC2.0_Public_Beta_download.xml>.

Regarding "network kept crashing" I would say you have a more serious
problem than trying to use RDC. What do you mean by "crash"? RDC may
possibly be hitting a vulnerability with your network, which is causing
problems but RDC itself can't "crash" a network.

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