Why'd it go away?

[Guest]

I've been accessing my home PC through the internet and across my LAN for months now with no problems. A couple of days ago, I stopped being able to access it.

The setup: the machine is running XP pro. It is connected through a Linksys router to a cablemodem. The port setup has not changed from when it worked.

I have tried remote desktop from both a machine on the internet and another on my LAN with no success. The error message is "Remote Desktop Disconnected - The client could not connect to the remote computer."

The only things that have changed on the computer I am trying to access are:
1. I uninstalled Norton anti-spam software.
2. I added a VPN connection, which is not active when I am trying to access the PC.

I sure hope I'm doing something dumb . Any ideas?

Thanks,

Tony

 

[Andre]

Sounds like your IP address changed, checked it?

DHCP is comman with most isps and changes your ip after a specified period
of time. You can get yourself an ip forwarder like dyndns.org. depending on
your router you might be able to put the settings in so it'll always update
your ip automaticly to the name, or get a third party client installed on
your comp (read at dyndns.org) or simply when it stops working go find out
what the new one is.

hope that wasn't more confusing

Andre

I've been accessing my home PC through the internet and across my LAN for

months now with no problems. A couple of days ago, I stopped being able to
access it.

The setup: the machine is running XP pro. It is connected through a

Linksys router to a cablemodem. The port setup has not changed from when it
worked.

I have tried remote desktop from both a machine on the internet and

another on my LAN with no success. The error message is "Remote Desktop
Disconnected - The client could not connect to the remote computer."

 

[Bill Sanderson]

I agree with Andre--see if you can connect by IP address when on the same
LAN.

Check what IP address is assigned to your machine--there's a screen in the
Linksys HTML which will show this, I believe.

 

[Nathaniel]

I've experienced the same issue of RD just stops working.
I also just recently INSTALLED norton anti-spam then
noticed the RD not connected. I have dyndns and orginally
thought I was being blocked by them for my dns program
which I wasn't. I think there might be a connection with
RD and norton anti-spam (which isn't really filtering my
email only taging the subject with [norton anti-spam] )
My local IP hasn't changed and yet my brothers computer
and the girlfriend's computer can't connect to the local
ip, there are no firewalls and nor has my netgear port
been changed as the nics mac address points to the xp
machine.
Nathaniel

-----Original Message-----
I've been accessing my home PC through the internet and

across my LAN for months now with no problems. A couple
of days ago, I stopped being able to access it.

The setup: the machine is running XP pro. It is

connected through a Linksys router to a cablemodem. The
port setup has not changed from when it worked.

I have tried remote desktop from both a machine on the

internet and another on my LAN with no success. The error
message is "Remote Desktop Disconnected - The client could
not connect to the remote computer."

 

[Guest]

Thanks for the input guys. Unfortunately, my IP address hasn't changed at the cablemodem side. I'm still able to access my webpage on that machine with no problem using my original IP address. I was fairly certain this wasn't the problem because I was unable to Remote Desktop to the machine from within my LAN

Nathaniel, I'm really beginning to think that Norton AntiSpam might be the culprit. I used Remote Desktop every day on this machine and it literally stopped working right after the AntiSpam uninstall.