Error When Connecting

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James

Everytime I try to connect to my home computer from a
remote location it always says

"The Client could not connect to remote computer

Remote connections miight not be enabled or the computer
might be too busy to accept new connections it is also
possible that network problems are preventing your
connection

Please try connecting again later. If the problems
continues to occur contact your administrator"

In the connecting box I put in
Computer: My IP
Username: My account name
Pass: My password
Domain: nothing

and at hope all I did was cilck "enable remote desktop"
I also have turned off my firewall

Please help thank you
 
Well, are you sure your calling the correct public internet IP address? If your ISP assigns IP
addresses dynamically, and most do, then the IP may have changed. Look at No-IP.com which maps an
alias (usually of your choice) to a DHCP assigned IP address. A small program runs on your PC and
contacts the No-IP.com servers on a periodic basis. The server then maps the IP of your PC to the
alias and propagates that over the public internet. It works very well for me and its FREE.... Go to
http://www.no-ip.com for help. Additional like services, some FREE and some $$$$, can be found on
this page...

http://www.remotenetworktechnology.com/ow.asp?Remote_Network_Home/Connections

You would call the remote PC using the alias...

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