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The desktop doesn't have a Windows log in, you just push enter on the username without a password and it goes through.

Not sure what more I can do!

Remote desktop requires your Windows user account to have a password or it doesn't let you remote connect.

(hint: you can create more than one account in Windows some with and some without passwords)

Otherwise anyone connecting to your router could access your home machine.

Which is probably not a good idea.

rgds

Also once you have this working you may consider allowing an rdp session from the internet to your home machine is a bad idea, a really really bad idea.

Better would be to set up an encrypted tunnel to your machine using perhaps OpenVPN which is secure and then performing the RDP session over that connection. (hint search the forums for a walk through)

rgds

Also if you are testing with the n900 on your local network via wifi then you will not need port forwarding for this just go direct to the IP address of the Windows machine.

Hint: not all routers allow you to connect from your local lan to the outside or internet IP address and then route back in via a port forward.

So you may need two RDP connections one for when you are on your lan and one when the n900 is connected directly to the internet.

rgds

@5spdvl
First test rdesktop when N900 is connected to your LAN(wireless router) as uTMY had suggested. If this works, then you can proceed to attempt connection from outside your LAN.
For remote access to Windows machines in my office network I personally use ssh tunneling - it is really secure and easy to setup.

I was testing using the N900 over 3G.

I'll create a Windows log in to see if that makes a difference to what I've already done.

Once I've got it working, then I'll worry about making it secure. Thankyou again for your help guys, I really appreciate it and your patience.

Hi Zlatko

Can you post the software you install on the windows machine and the command line you use to setup the shh tunnel here to help the OP?

I personally use OpenVPN since it provides a really nice gui connect facility and can handle mutliple concurrent sessions and services over a single easy to use pipe.

rgds

@uTMY

I use *nix machine to establish the tunnel. Our corporate network consist of many *nix machines(30+) and few Windowses(3-4).
I just start ssh on my N900 with -L option:
This command binds port 3389 on my N900 to port 3389 of the remote Windows machine on office LAN, with all communication flowing through the encrypted ssh tunnel established between N900 and remote *nix machine.

LAN_IP_windows: IP address of the Windows desktop on the LAN I want to remotely access.
IP_unix: real IP of a *nix machine connected to Internet and to the same LAN.

Then I just point Rdesktop on my N900 to localhost and I end up on the Windows desktop ;-)

Thank you for following up, the main reason I suggested OpenVPN was because it has a Windows client but I bet the OP would like an exercise in creating a home Linux machine to act as a gateway via SSH.

I actually wondered if you had found an easy to use GPL based SSH service for a windows machine.

:-)

cheers

rgds

There are several options. I have used OpenSSH in Cygwin and a friend proposed MobaSSH as simpler (but haven't tried that).

I thought Cygwin was encumbered by various issues, patents, copyright etc.

rgds