Remote Desktop Help

[Shadly]

I started trying to get this to work sometime in my early 20's, and have been ever since for at least 7 or so years now. I just watched a video on youtube, and I noticed that one of the steps is not available to me. I have Vista, and the guy had this step where you search remote desktop from the control panel, click on allow remote connections, and then set the permissions out of three choices in a section of this control panel labeled "remote desktop". The three sections were essentially 'no connections', 'less secure', and 'more secure' if that rings a bell. This section is not here though.

Anyway, I tried connecting from another computer and it doesn't work. I have a dyndns account, I configured the router to forward port 3389, clicked allow remote connections. It's a Belikin. Still nothing.

I'm completely lost and forlorn. Please help.

 

[The_Other_One]

Sounds like you're trying to jump ahead of yourself. Confirm your able to connect within your network. Make sure the firewall on the COMPUTER is open, users are setup with the correct permissions, blah blah blah... Once you know you can get connected, then you can focus on getting your router configured for true remote access.

BTW... How are you testing your remote access? I don't know how your router works right off, but some routers don't allow for loopback connections. IE, you can't connect to your own server using your WAN IP address. Be sure you test the connection off your network.

 

[Shadly]

Sounds like you're trying to jump ahead of yourself. Confirm your able to connect within your network. Make sure the firewall on the COMPUTER is open, users are setup with the correct permissions, blah blah blah... Once you know you can get connected, then you can focus on getting your router configured for true remote access.

BTW... How are you testing your remote access? I don't know how your router works right off, but some routers don't allow for loopback connections. IE, you can't connect to your own server using your WAN IP address. Be sure you test the connection off your network.

I think that is the problem. I don't have any of the choices to set permissions. When I go to system properties\remote, there are not toggles for permissions.

As for testing the remote access, I'm not sure what you mean by that. I went to the IP address for my router, forwarded the port 3389 to my ip address, and told it to allow remote connections.