Having problems connecting remotely to another pc that I have setup at a friend’s house.
We recently setup a wireless router and hooked up his laptop w/ a wlan nic to provide him with high speed internet access via a wireless connection. We then picked up a wireless pci card for his older desktop pc and did the same thing. Both his laptop & desktop pc are running xp pro & connected to the internet using a wireless lan connection. The wireless router being used is an older Netgear 4 port wireless router (80211b standard, not G), the wireless nic’s being used are both netgear brand as well, a pcmcia card for the laptop & a pci card for the desktop. Stuff he picked up on ebay.
Both workstations can access the internet just fine. We can connect the laptop to the workstation & vice versa using a RDP session, that works fine from both machines. We have installed RealVNC v4.1.1 on both machines however here’s the kicker, I can only connect to the laptop from the workstation using RealVNC, not vice versa.
I can ping both machines from each other using IP address (ex. 192.168.0.2 or .3) or by device name, so the machines can see each other. They can both access the router config page by entering the router’s ip address and securely login to view & change settings. Wireless lan settings on both workstations are the same, both obtaining IP’s via dhcp (the router), gateway, dns & wins settings obtained automatically as well. We can access file shares on both machines from each machine. However, RealVNC will not work from the laptop to the desktop. Using M$ Remote desktop works but it isn’t interactive, it disables the existing user session to initiate the remote session and we would like to get an interactive session running. He uses the laptop for himself and the kids use the desktop.
We tested and the same problem when we use wired connection. Any ideas as to why RealVNC isn’t working?
