Remote Desktop on Diamond

[syanni85]

Originally Posted by toinejuan

Syanni, it's not all that difficult. The first thing you need to do is enable remote desktop access on your pc, you can do this in the System menu. Secondly you need to obtain your computers ip, if your behind a router, you need to get the actual ip address and go into your port forwarding to setup remote access. If you in your router go to your status menu, and it will give you the computers actual ip address not the 192.168.whatever. Where it says computer, this is where you put in the actual ip address and login name is the name you use on your desktop along with the password. All you have to do is input those and hit connect and waaaalaaaa your good.

ok i got to the point of hitting connect... but now a different error pops up...

this one says: Connection status, likely reasons are : 1. the remote computer is not set up for this. (but it worked when i had it synced with activesync)
2.reached the maximum number of connections
3 a network error occurred while connecting.


this happens everytime i try to connect now... is there a setting somewhere? do i have to put it on the list of accepted devices on my desktop? if so where do i go about doing this?

[toinejuan]

same menu in the system properties you can input the name of your ppc and save it to the allowed list.....give that a shot. Oh yea, don't forget to change it to 16 bit it works a lot smoother and looks a lot better.

[syanni85]

Originally Posted by pixelwix

hmm i know i've done this a million times.. i can connect over wifi fine but i can't seem to connect via evdo.. i have the right port being forwarded on my router still nothing dam vista

how exactly and where can i find this port forwarding? Sorry if that sounds really newb, but i've NEVER done this before

[Curb71]

assuming you have a router, type in 192.168.0.1 into the url bar and hit enter to access your router. username for router should be admin and password leave blank. navigate around there to find port forwarding. if you cant do it check www.portforward.com

[pixelwix]

the default port to forward is 3389 make sure you set it up in your router...

[syanni85]

Originally Posted by Curb71

assuming you have a router, type in 192.168.0.1 into the url bar and hit enter to access your router. username for router should be admin and password leave blank. navigate around there to find port forwarding. if you cant do it check www.portforward.com

Originally Posted by pixelwix

the default port to forward is 3389 make sure you set it up in your router...

ok, i do have a login and password, and i did get into my router and found the port forwarding!!! But i put 3389 and saved it and still nothin tho.. hmmm..

i really can't find where to put my ppc name on my desktop... can either of you guys gimme specified directions? i.e.Start Menu>*****>****>*****

[[sammich]]

You need to enable it in control panel and your firewall.

Start>Control Panel>System>Remote>Check Allow users to connect remotely to this computer

Start>Control Panel>Security Center>Firewall exceptions>Make sure Remote Desktop is an exception

Also, your computer MUST have a password

[Curb71]

oh....my computer doesnot have a password. and I dont want it to. that means I cant have remote desktop unless I create a password for my dekstop?
Also do I have to be on Wifi for this to work or would I be able to access my desktop from down the street on the EVDO network?

[pixelwix]

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/u...moteintro.mspx <-- if you have xp
http://windowshelp.microsoft.com/Win...c61e61033.mspx <-- vista

[[sammich]]

Originally Posted by Curb71

oh....my computer doesnot have a password. and I dont want it to. that means I cant have remote desktop unless I create a password for my dekstop?
Also do I have to be on Wifi for this to work or would I be able to access my desktop from down the street on the EVDO network?

Must have password.
You can access your computer from down the street. Except you have to have your external IP address. Go to IPChicken.com to find it out.
Also, to connect to your computer using the wifi network it's attatched to, you can use the internal IP which should be something like 192.168.1.105
[for example, my external is is 98.213.146.xx] DON'T TRY TO FIGURE OUT THE LAST 2 NUMBERS! [and my internal is 192.168.1.107]

It helps to get a static IP for both internal and external [it may cost money to get one from your ISP]