Lamar Owen wrote: > On Tuesday 15 January 2008, Kevin J. Cummings wrote: >> Curious, Windows XP Firewall on all 3 machines have checkboxes for both >> Remote Desktop and Remote Assistance on both my XP Home and my XP Pro >> machines. Is this just M$ being inconsistent? > > Enabling it in the firewall only opens the port being used, TCP 3389. > > To enable remote desktop in XP Pro, visit Control Panel -> System, and click > the Remote tab. An XP Home install will have Remote Assistance, but > shouldn't have the Remote Desktop function. For it to work, you have to > check the checkbox and assign a user that has a password to it. Ka-ching! That is what I was missing. I had to enable Remote Desktop on my XP Pro machine. Now rdesktop connects no problem. This can now end this thread. I've learned a lot from it. Thanks to all who helped! -- Kevin J. Cummings kjchome@xxxxxxx cummings@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx cummings@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Registered Linux User #1232 (http://counter.li.org)
