Problem with rdesktop
 

Hello! This is my first post and I'm been trying to get rdesktop and realVNC to work but I havent find the right solution yet and I tought this would be the best place to ask (for last lol).

I have setup a server and I'm using a NAT router and VNC server configuration has given me a IP to connect to.
It's been tested and works the ports and everything with PC to PC with the IP adress and port 3389 that is the default port to rdesktop if I am not wrong?

So I'm facing a problem really with only rDesktop and why it fails to connect to my PC.

phone is in public wlan provided by the city and PC is in my lan.

// Im not sure did I give you all the right information and did I post this in the right place.

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Re: Problem with rdesktop
 

try to put your firewall in learning mode.

Re: Problem with rdesktop
 

Well if it didn't work with firewall off I doubt learning mode would help.
But thanks for the advice.

Re: Problem with rdesktop
 

If your server is behind NAT then you need to do port forwarding.

Re: Problem with rdesktop
 

Yes. I have done port forwarding using my routers instructions properly with step by step (Wasn't really a task to do since it was very much automatic).

Re: Problem with rdesktop
 

Is that PC to PC over the internet?

Re: Problem with rdesktop
 

I think you are mixing things up. rDesktop is not a VNC client, but a Windows Remote Desktop/Terminal Server one. If you really want to use a VNC server on your desktop machine (something I wouldn't recommend if it is running Windows), try VNC Viewer on your N900.

Re: Problem with rdesktop
 

you could well be right!

but i have experience the same problem, disable windows firewall assuming it would disable eset but th fact is it was still blocking communication, until i tried to enable media server in my windows pc and was not able to connect pc/media server...

by the way vnc always worked from n900 to pc and vice versa but rdesktop did not work... as long as you connect to local router it should work without any router configuration...

upon resolving the media server connectivity by putting eset in learning mode, i also got the rdesktop working...

...if the firewall is off then reboot pc first and check afterwords that is still off and try again by ip address!

by the way i have ditched the old router since i got this working and the newer one did not need any configuration either, just put eset in learn mode and connect to it for the new firewall rules to be created.

port forward is only for external ip access, same thing would apply, firewall in learn mode... might have to edit firewall rules and wilcard it...

i can even use the media server on my pc now over wifi.

Re: Problem with rdesktop
 

Yeah there was a mistake what I wrote, sorry about that.

I found out the problem was with the wlan, and with first try I changed it to 3G, only prob with that is that my 3G currently is quite slow. Damn gotta boost it up someday.

Well that was dealth with, but now I'm facing a new kind of problem...

rdesktop and windows vista 64 home basic.
Am I able to use them together? I tried to make them work like the quide says for the xp but I think there are too many differences that I fail in some cases.

If someone has the solution to use.
n900, rdesktop connected to 3G/wlan and win vista 64 homebasic remote access connected to lan.

Could you post the solution to this problem then?

Re: Problem with rdesktop
 

Assuming you want to RDP from n900 as client into your PC as server ... Vista home basic can't run RDP server, you can only do that with the pro versions. It's posible to circumvent this, but you'd need to do some googling elsewhere if oyu wnat to go down that route. No such problem using VNC however so that's another alternative, there's loads of detailed help here about VNC setup if you do a search.