I like to remote desktop into my desktop (running Vista Ultimate 64) from my laptop (Powerbook G4 / OS 10.4) both when I'm at home and when I'm not.

For some reason, I can only login to my desktop from my laptop when I'm on the LAN at my home, and not from anywhere else. The RDC software gives me a "cannot connect" error.

However, I know I have the port forwarding enabled on my router because I can hop on any other PC-based computer and connect (like from my computer at work).

What would allow my laptop to login from the local LAN but not from the Internet? I've checked my firewall on the Mac and I have RDC wide open.

9/14/2008 10:10:22 AM

i really thought macs were supposed to be easy

9/14/2008 11:05:41 AM

they are, when I'm on my home network

9/14/2008 11:23:23 AM

well i only posted that because after reading your original post, i cant think of anything preventing it from working

you appear to have covered all your bases

9/14/2008 11:31:15 AM

What do you mean "anywhere else"? Maybe "anywhere else" has a firewall up on the router blocking it.

9/14/2008 12:22:36 PM

Put Hamachi on both machines ... connect with RDP to the Hamachi IP ... profit.

9/14/2008 1:06:45 PM

^ second that

9/14/2008 2:09:22 PM

what ports do you have forwarding? i'd set it to the dmz host just to see if it works first

9/14/2008 2:38:26 PM

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"Put Hamachi on both machines ... connect with RDP to the Hamachi IP ... profit."

RDC doesn't work with Hamachi either outside of my LAN. I can ping the computer through Hamachi and get a reply though.

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"What do you mean "anywhere else"? Maybe "anywhere else" has a firewall up on the router blocking it."

Anywhere that isn't in my home. It doesn't work on my laptop from work, my parent's house, my girlfriend's condo, or anywhere. If I were to hop on a different computer at one of these locations, it connects in just fine. It just seems to be from my personal laptop.

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"what ports do you have forwarding? i'd set it to the dmz host just to see if it works first"

3389 only, UDP and TCP.

9/14/2008 2:40:34 PM

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"Anywhere that isn't in my home. It doesn't work on my laptop from work, my parent's house, my girlfriend's condo, or anywhere. If I were to hop on a different computer at one of these locations, it connects in just fine. It just seems to be from my personal laptop."

ah.. ignore what i said then.. sounds like something with your laptop then..although i couldn't tell you what

9/14/2008 2:45:17 PM

^ You're worthless to me then

j/k <3. I think it's time I wipe the system clean and reinstall everything. I'm using my original 10.4 installation from like 3 years ago when I upgraded from 10.3.

9/15/2008 12:24:49 PM