Mr. Arnold

"ihhann" <ihhann@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:17626300-7EF3-476C-8748-A4128170C197@microsoft.com...
>I am trying to connect from an XP Pro desktop (at home) to a Vista (64-bit)
> workstation (office). In the office, I can connect to the Vista
> workstation
> from another XP Pro machine. At home, I have a home network and I have
> enabled port forwarding on 3389. I get the error message "This computer
> can't connect to the remote computer."

It's the firewall at the office that needs port 3389 forwarded to your LAN
IP/machine on the company's LAN and not port forwarding of the port on your
end at the router or whatever you're using as the gateway device, since it's
your machine that's initiating the contact.

If the FW and security admin has any sense, and most do, they are not going
to allow you to do this, since your home network and the machines on your
LAN would be a security risk to the company's network.

I suggest you close port 3389, because your machine is the client and the
machine at work in the host that needs port 3389 forwarded.