On Wednesday 05 October 2005 08:38, Chadley Wilson wrote: <snip>
When I connect using rdc it hangs on "Establishing Connection ... for about 5 minutes before it gives and error " Connection attempt to host failed."
Hi Chadley, I pulled my hair out once on a project like this. Sorry if you've already addressed these or they're not relevant... I'm tossing them into the 'mix' just in case: - Ping each machine from the other, first, to confirm that each can see the other. It is a lot faster than waiting for connection attempts to time out. Temporarily drop the firewalls if you have to. The goal is to get a consistent response to ping from both ends. When you've got that done, the next step of configuring for regular secure connections becomes much easier. - Check that the router on the connection receiving side has "reject anonymous connections" disabled. I learned the hard way that you can configure and "enable" port forwarding or triggering in some of these devices but you won't get anywhere until you disable the connection refusal protection in a separate menu. That's my two cents. Good luck! - Carl