Remote Desktop Connection Problems

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Brett_A

I'm trying to configure RDC on my home network. I have two machines
(both XP Pro) and I want to remote connect to one (host) from the
other (client). Both machines will connect to a remote web server I
have, so it works that way. I have Windows Firewall configured to
allow RDC, I have the host box configured to allow remote
connections.

If I open RDC and browse my local workgroup, I get "workgroup does
not contain any terminal servers"...


What am I doing wrong?


Thanks.


Brett
 
Brett_A said:
I'm trying to configure RDC on my home network. I have two machines
(both XP Pro) and I want to remote connect to one (host) from the
other (client). Both machines will connect to a remote web server I
have, so it works that way. I have Windows Firewall configured to
allow RDC, I have the host box configured to allow remote
connections.

If I open RDC and browse my local workgroup, I get "workgroup does
not contain any terminal servers"...


What am I doing wrong?


Thanks.


Brett
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Normally you can't browse for a XP RDC host in a workgroup environment. With
that said there is a registry hack to allow this...

READ THESE TWO KB ARTICLE FIRST!!!!!

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;256986
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;322756

The registry hack..

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;281307

Additional help using Remote Desktop

http://theillustratednetwork.mvps.org/RemoteDesktop/RemoteDesktopSetupandTroubleshooting.html

Any good reason you want to use the web based method? It, IMHO, simply
complicates the process...

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