Remote Desktop Problem
 

When I'm connected to my wifi at home, I can connect to my PC with my phone, but if I switch to my data connection, it says it can't connect. I've tried my 192.168.x.x IP that the router assigns and I've also tried my public IP.

I also can't connect (to my home PC) if I'm at my friends house, connected to his wifi.

For the 'computer' field, that's where I put my IP. Then my username and password. Domain name is blank, should I be putting anything there. I don't even know my domain name, if I have one.

Should I be trying to connect to the router's IP if I'm connecting from outside my own wifi network?

I have a Belkin router if that helps

thanks

Re: Remote Desktop Problem
 

yeah wish i could help more , but you have to enter an almost URL looking thing where it says computer .. i forget what it was . im sorry

EDIT: i remember using a third party app which you installed a server client on the PC and then a program on the WM device , i cant for the life of me find the program on my backup hard drive or online . i dont remember what it was called . but it set up and did everything perfectly . it even had options for streaming video as well . like i have a TV tuner on my dekstop and i was able to stream it to my TP2 and watch TV from there i loved it and i hate myself for loosing it :(

Wirelessly posted (htc Pocket PC: Sprint/HTC_Touch_Pro2_T7380 Opera/9.70 (Windows NT 5.1; U; en))

:) These threads should help.

This:

http://forum.ppcgeeks.com/htc-touch-...remote+desktop

Or:

http://forum.ppcgeeks.com/htc-touch-...remote+desktop

Re: Remote Desktop Problem
 

Ah okay so port forwarding is probably what I'm missing. Can't wait to get home to try it. Thanks horndoctor.

Re: Remote Desktop Problem
 

Teamviewer?

Yeah, you need to setup a port forward from your public IP to your local IP. I would suggest using a static IP on your local IP and for your public IP, depending on your provider it can change, so I would suggest setting up a dynamic dns.

Also you may want to make a self signed SSL ceritificate and setup RDP to have SSL.

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they dont make it for the WM platform i thought ? it was very low end i remember finding it on freewareppc.net or freewarepocketpc.com . one of those websites . i actually wish i could find it again :P

Re: Remote Desktop Problem
 

I doubt its Logmein then..hmm..was it VNC based?

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Thanks for the tip gten, i'll be looking into that as well

To clarify, local would be my router and public would be my PC?

Re: Remote Desktop Problem
 

This?

zaDesktop Windows Mobile phone Pocket PC freeware software mobile download

or this?

Host Explorer v0.04 Alpha Windows Mobile phone Pocket PC freeware software mobile download

Re: Remote Desktop Problem
 

192.168.X.X tend to be your local ips. Your public IP is the IP thats not that lol

(and just in case 127.0.0.1 is your localhost ip, you dont need it for this but jsut in case its not the ip you need)

Wirelessly posted (VZW TP2: Opera/9.7 (WindowsMobile; PPC; Opera Mobi/35267; U; en; Presto/2.1.1))

i wish teamviewer supported wm still. Its a very powerfull remote tool. I jump to android boot to use teamviewer since its supported.
I even wrote teamviewer a note asking about support for wp7. no support fo it so far.
I had a cab for teamviewer when they supported it. then with the updates that teamviewer did to the desktop side, the wm program no longer worked.
RDP is still prefered when the client supports it but teamviewer (and even vncviewer) are great alternatives (and easy to work with client and explain how to install them; especially teamviewer).

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I got it working last night. Pretty awesome I must say. My router made it a little confusing for port forwarding. I had private ports and inbound ports and other options that the other how to didn't have. That kind of threw me off.

Anyways, if it's ever needed again, here's my setup for reference.

lol at the onscreen keyboard in the pic, I couldn't find out how to do a print screen from the phone.

Re: Remote Desktop Problem
 

private port = port of your local ip
inbound port = port of your public ip

The use of it is like this, lets say you have 2 computers you want to remote desktop to that are on the same network.

You setup inbound port of say 53389 to forward to 192.168.0.1 and private port 3389 and then inbound port of say 63389 to forward to 192.168.0.2 and private port 3389..this way you can access multiple pcs.

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oh how I'm reminded of my CISCO classes !

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So, other than using the onscreen keyboard, is there no way to use a ctrl or alt key?

I can navigate around Windows with only a keyboard pretty well, and it's kind of hard to click the small links or icons and whatnot, so I was hoping there was some other alternative.