Good lord. Aight. Here's the PG-13 version.
I am having a little trouble remoting into another machine that's on my home network. I have a Wireless G Linksys router. I'm not sure of the exact name but I believe it is a WRT54G. I'll try to explain what I've been going through trying to get this to work. It started when I tried to remote into my computer (I'll call it my Main PC) from my work laptop. The company allows remote desktop. I know this for a fact. I decided to bring the laptop home and try to remote in. I set my Main PC up for remote desktop access. Then with the laptop I connected to a friend's wireless network here in my apartment complex so that I could try to remote in from an outside network. I tried what I think to be everything. I tried turning off firewalls. I tried forwarding ports. I even tried to use a different laptop that didn't have a company image on it and was just working as a normal personal XP laptop and that didnt work either. I just gave up on it.
Fast forward a couple of months to the present. I decided to setup a Media Center PC in my living room. After I get everything setup, I decide to share a few folders on the Main PC with the new Media Center PC. That goes fine. So I'm able to access all my movies and files that I specify to share. So I decide to setup remote desktop just in case I want to remote into my Main PC. Once again, I'm having issues. I've tried turning off firewalls both Windows and third party on both PC's and it still doesnt work. What's frustrating is it's like Windows doesn't even try....like it doesn't even give an effort. When I select remote desktop and type in the IP address, that is static by the way, Windows doesn't even do anything. I press connect and the Remote Desktop box will blink for a split second and it just stays at the connect box. It doesnt give an error or anything.
Anyone have any suggestions at all?
I am having a little trouble remoting into another machine that's on my home network. I have a Wireless G Linksys router. I'm not sure of the exact name but I believe it is a WRT54G. I'll try to explain what I've been going through trying to get this to work. It started when I tried to remote into my computer (I'll call it my Main PC) from my work laptop. The company allows remote desktop. I know this for a fact. I decided to bring the laptop home and try to remote in. I set my Main PC up for remote desktop access. Then with the laptop I connected to a friend's wireless network here in my apartment complex so that I could try to remote in from an outside network. I tried what I think to be everything. I tried turning off firewalls. I tried forwarding ports. I even tried to use a different laptop that didn't have a company image on it and was just working as a normal personal XP laptop and that didnt work either. I just gave up on it.
Fast forward a couple of months to the present. I decided to setup a Media Center PC in my living room. After I get everything setup, I decide to share a few folders on the Main PC with the new Media Center PC. That goes fine. So I'm able to access all my movies and files that I specify to share. So I decide to setup remote desktop just in case I want to remote into my Main PC. Once again, I'm having issues. I've tried turning off firewalls both Windows and third party on both PC's and it still doesnt work. What's frustrating is it's like Windows doesn't even try....like it doesn't even give an effort. When I select remote desktop and type in the IP address, that is static by the way, Windows doesn't even do anything. I press connect and the Remote Desktop box will blink for a split second and it just stays at the connect box. It doesnt give an error or anything.
Anyone have any suggestions at all?