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Originally Posted by joesnake
You need to put in the ip address of your pc, not the router
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In where?
The port forward rule in the router is 192.168.1.99 - which is the fixed IP of my PC...
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Originally Posted by RDDearing
From outside of your home you will need to put in the WAN IP of the router as this will forward on to your PC via the port forwarding you've already set up.
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Yep - thats what I'm doing 62.x.x.x
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Originally Posted by RDDearing
I assume you've turned Remote Desktop on on the client PC (Computer Properties -> Remote -> Allow Users to Connect Remotely To This Computer.
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Works fine from inside the LAN so I know RDP config / passwords are ok.
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Originally Posted by RDDearing
Do you have the Windows Firewall turned on? If so, have you allowed RDP through it?
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Got Kaspersky installed - it works inside the LAN so do I need to specificaly state in the RDP session in the firewall rules if it's coming from outside? This might be why it's not working.
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Originally Posted by RDDearing
Also, do you have an ATI graphics card? I ask because we had an oddity here with the shipped version of the Catalyst driver that caused RDP not to work! Upgrading to the latest version of the ATI software fixed the problem - weird eh but we weren't alone according to the web.
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Very odd! It might be - I'll have to check...
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Originally Posted by RDDearing
Finally, try looking in the Event Log of the computer you are trying to connect to - are there any entries that show a connection is being made and refused and if so, any reasons given?
Good luck!
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Checked the router log - nothing!