Hello all,

I'm trying to connect to my W3K box from a WINXP machine.  The connection is to my 
external IP address which is set to port 5059 on 192.168.1.60.  This connection just 
times out.

I have no problem connection to a WinXP box at 192.168.1.44 on port 44.

The W3K box has the firewall turned off so I believe this wouldn't get in the way.

I'm using an external firewall which seems to be working without any problems except 
for this issue.

Does anyone know of any other settings in the W3K box which have to be set?

This is driving me crazy, can't figure you why I can do a remote desk top connect 
from my office WinXP box to my home WinXP box but not to he W3K box.

BTW, Remote Desktop is set in the system tab on the W3K box.

Any help and suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks.
Regards

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re: Remote Desk Top Saturday, October 27, 2007 at 7:37 pm Posted by jazzman (4141 messages posted) Do you have port forwarding set up correctly in the router/firewall in front of your server? jazz is a state of mind... A+, Net+, Sec +, MCP XP, MCP/MCSA W2K3, MCSE+S+M W2K3, CCNA, CCVP CAWLANFE, CQS, CIPTS, HP Accredited Platform Specialist [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Remote Desk Top Sunday, October 28, 2007 at 6:28 am Posted by Howard Rifkind (57 messages posted) Yes, but I'm using a seperate firewall. We did find out that other machines in the office can get to it and now it appears that the machine I'm using is on a segment of the LAN which has some sort of restrictions. Of course it will take the Networking people forever to find out what the problem really is. Thanks. Regards On Wednesday, October 24, 2007 at 10:25 am, Howard Rifkind wrote: >Hello all, > >I'm trying to connect to my W3K box from a WINXP machine. The connection is to my >external IP address which is set to port 5059 on 192.168.1.60. This connection just >times out. > >I have no problem connection to a WinXP box at 192.168.1.44 on port 44. > >The W3K box has the firewall turned off so I believe this wouldn't get in the way. > >I'm using an external firewall which seems to be working without any problems except >for this issue. > >Does anyone know of any other settings in the W3K box which have to be set? > >This is driving me crazy, can't figure you why I can do a remote desk top connect >from my office WinXP box to my home WinXP box but not to he W3K box. > >BTW, Remote Desktop is set in the system tab on the W3K box. > >Any help and suggestions would be greatly appreciated. > >Thanks. > Regards [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Remote Desk Top Monday, November 5, 2007 at 7:08 am Posted by appleoddity (2369 messages posted) THey are probably filtering certain ports. In any case, reconfigure your W3K box to listen on a different port.. Try port 80, if you aren't running any IIS services. I love using that port because all the script kiddy hackers out there think it is a web server and usually never touch it. Its a wonderful disguise for a commonly attacked service. Port 80 would definitely go through your network, because that is the port all the web browsers in your company use to connect to external web server. :) In any case, thats the quick work around, to get you up and running. It also just came to me, you could RDP into your home XP box, and then RDP into your server from that box. This is how I usually set things up.. That way there is only one entry point into the network, and from there you connect to the other machines. [Reply or follow-up to this message] Tip: Use one of the [Reply or follow-up to this message] links above to add a message to this thread Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows Server 2003 Discussion Forum