Setting up Remote Desktop

[pjf357]

I havn't tried vnc. But I will give it a whirl when I get back from work.

[dagnasty]

Originally Posted by dahray02

my question is do i have to do all that for VNC or are those instructions just for remote desktop

VNC uses a different port, port 5900, so you will have to open and forward that port to your PC. It will also use port 5800 for a connection via web browser, but that will only work on a PC so you don't really have to worry about that one. You can also change the listening port in the settings as well

[dahray02]

Originally Posted by dagnasty

VNC uses a different port, port 5900, so you will have to open and forward that port to your PC. It will also use port 5800 for a connection via web browser, but that will only work on a PC so you don't really have to worry about that one. You can also change the listening port in the settings as well

so basically follow those instructions but change 3389 to 5900? I can change the port on Ultra VNC to use 3389 instead of 5900, and then port forward to 3389. that sounds like it would work?

[dagnasty]

Originally Posted by dahray02

so basically follow those instructions but change 3389 to 5900? I can change the port on Ultra VNC to use 3389 instead of 5900, and then port forward to 3389. that sounds like it would work?

Not sure how the 2 programs listening on the same port would work out. Maybe turn off RDP first. Portforward.com should have a guide for VNC as well, but its basically the same thing as RDP

[dahray02]

Originally Posted by dagnasty

Not sure how the 2 programs listening on the same port would work out. Maybe turn off RDP first. Portforward.com should have a guide for VNC as well, but its basically the same thing as RDP

oh i'm not using RDP at all....I'm trying to use VNC only

[avgas]

follow the guide at portforward.com for VNC

[pjf357]

avgas is right just use the same step by step and instead of selecting remote desktop select vnc

[stevenmh]

Originally Posted by pjf357

God yes!!! make sure you manually turn on the data connection or you will be

Oh, for the love. Is MS serious?

I was in a seminar all day today. Got boring. REAL boring. Guy reading building code verbatim. So I decided I'd give RDP 6.1 a spin for the first time.

I enter the info, hit connect, and it brings up my Vista x64 desktop. Lookin' sweet. I open up my email to look for an order confirmation. About 10 seconds later, RDP disconnects. I try to connect again, but I get an error message about my connection settings. I reboot, same thing. Google for the RDP6.1 cab, download, reinstall, same thing. Now I'm getting disgruntled because my email is open at home... auto checking POP3 every 5 minutes and deleting mail off the server... so I can't even check email on my Pro the rest of the day. Try Windows Remote Workplace or whatever it's called into our server, thinking I'll RDP from my work desktop into home and shut down mail, but neither Opera nor PIE will download the ActiveX component to do that through SBS2003. So I spend the rest of the day BITTER.

I come home, turn off the phone, turn on wi-fi, and it's working fine thru LAN and WAN. Try phone data again, same problem. Install RDP6.1 on my wife's Treo 800w, it works fine. So I google around and end up here in this thread.

So I try again, manually start a data connection through Comm Manager, and now it works fine.

Seriously. MS's RDP client can't auto start a data connection? Actually, it seems it can, but just sometimes refuses to. Based on what? Mood? I mean, it worked the first time I tried it, and then just stopped. And now, having gotten it to work, I disconnected and I let 10 seconds go by for the data connection to terminate (thru Advanced Config tool option), try it again, and this time it auto starts the data connection and stays connected, even if I just let it sit there and do nothing. I even let it sit long enough for the screen to turn off, turn it back on, and the data connection / RDP session is still uninterrupted.

So I went all day without email for no reason. Stupid random Windows nonsense.

[dahray02]

mannn, thanks all of ya'll i cant say thanks enough....vnc works like a charm!!

[mikenerd]

Originally Posted by majorassface

RDP default port is 3389
I've got RDP working on my Diamond and don't use a third party app. If you're behind a router than you will have to setup a dns, it's real easy just do a google search and you will find a million tuts. Forward port 3389 to your PC and make sure your firewall rules allow it. That's it, then on your phone hit RDP, enter the dns you set for your router as the computer name and then your pc user name and pswd and it works. Let me know if you have trouble.

Can someone please check my work? Can't get it to work...dont know why.

I am using Vista and my computer is connected to a router

1. went to whatismyipaddress.com from the computer I want to access and wrote it down

2. went to dynDNS and signed up for a dynamic DNS. I checked the "host ip option" I used auto-detect ip there and it came up with the same ip from above. When I finished signing up I installed their DynDNS updater to my machine in case my ip changes

3. set up a static ip on the computer I want to conncet to.

4. Forwarded the port to the above static ip.

5. Setup DDNS in my router settings:
put in my DynDNS username for "username"
put in my DynDNS password for "password"
put in "myname.kicks-***.net" for "hostname"
selected "dynamic" form the drop down
Then I hit update and it say "updated"

6. Fire wall in windows and router is off.

7. I enabled "allow remote connections" in system on the computer I want to connect with.

8. I had never setup my PC user name so I did that under accounts and assigned a password.

9. Went to my TP and opened RDT and put in:
"myname.kicks-***.net" under "computer"
put in my cumputer's name under "user name"
put in my computer's password under "password"
I left domain blank.

When I hit connect I get:
Cannot connect: 1) specified computer name or IP does not exist. 2) A network error occured while establishing a connection.

I can't figure it out.....What did I miss?????