Problems connecting to RDP through VPN.

[riddellcomp]

Hello,

Im trying to connect to my office via an rdp connection through a VPN. The VPN works fine and will connect no problems but when I try to connect to my desktop on the server through a remote desktop connection I get the error message "The client could not connect to the remote computer......"

My IT dept at work say its nothing wrong at their end and must be a setting on my computer. I used to be able to do this no problems from my computer but reformatted my drive awhile ago and now have had problems trying to set this up ever since. I tried another computer in my house to see if it isolated the problem to just my pc but I couldnt connect with the other pc either.

I thought it might be my router but I have no firewalls etc turned on in the router so not sure what it could be.

Any suggestions???

[emr]

What OS are you tyring to connect to? You say "desktop on the server", are you connecting to Terminal Services on a Windows Server then?

If it is just a plain XP box then check that Remote Desktop is allowed in the Windows Firewall.

emr

[riddellcomp]

Yes I am connecting to terminal services on a windows server. Its not a problem at the server end though as all of our depots across the state connect up this way. I can connect to the server from my office no problems and used to be able to do it from home at one stage but just not anymore, since I reformatted my hdd.

[riddellcomp]

Well for those that are interested I fixed this problem with some help from a patient IT guy at work. It was a conflict of IP addresses. I had to change the IP address in my router as it was the same ip address that the server uses.