I have recently re-formatted my Windows XP Professional computer. I used to be able to connect to it via Remote Desktop Connection over the internet and over my LAN. Now I can only connect to it over my LAN. I used to be able to connect to it from school, but now I can't. I have enabled all options that I have used before. I have not forwarded the port in my router because I never had to before. Two questions: 1) Why won't this work and is there a way I can fix this? 2) Is there a temporary way around this that I can connect to my computer from here and finsih this website, for which the deadline is tonight? Thanks! Will Free Computer Help: http://www.william234.co.nr/ "Sorry for ranting. I seem to do that a lot!" -ME

I guess, it s a firewall issue. If your home pc is connected to the internet via a firewall router, you have to forward the port to your pc. Otherwise you'll get no connection. If you have tried to connect to your pc from school, you should see an entry in the routers log of the denied connection try. Please send a reply, if you solved the problem !!!

I'll check my log tonight. Like I said before, I could connect without forwarding the port in my router. I'll check tonight if my WAN IP changed or if it was right, just the port was being blocked. I'll let you know how it goes! Will Free Computer Help: http://www.william234.co.nr/ "Sorry for ranting. I seem to do that a lot!" -ME

I checked the logs and the attempts to connect were blocked. So I forwarded the port from my router. Now, instead of getting an error, I get no error and RDC closes when I try to connect. The process even exits. Will Free Computer Help: http://www.william234.co.nr/ "Sorry for ranting. I seem to do that a lot!" -ME

Is there an entry for the RDC in the Event log of the PC, you're trying to connect to? Or is there a firewall running at the PC you're trying to connect to? Maybe it's blocked from a local firewall too. Please send a reply, if you solved the problem !!!

There is a log for the attempts in the router's firewall log. There is no firewall on the client computer except Windows XP Pro's which is configured to let RDC through. The time that this stopped is also about the time that I moved my website to a dedicated web server, which uses port 80. Would this affect it? Also, I am pretty sure that RDC isn't blocked at my school because a) I have connected before, and b) They use RDC from outside sources to work on the computers. Will Free Computer Help: http://www.william234.co.nr/ "Sorry for ranting. I seem to do that a lot!" -ME

You can check whether the port is reachable from the internet from this link: http://www.auditmypc.com/ Use the firewall test for it. Please send a reply, if you solved the problem !!!