I have XP Pro at home on a desktop. I can access this computer with another
XP computer no problem. I just bought a new laptop with Vista installed, how
can I get the Vista laptop to do a remote desktop to the XP Pro machine?

Can you telnet port 3389?

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"nightman28" <nightman28@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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>I have XP Pro at home on a desktop. I can access this computer with another
> XP computer no problem. I just bought a new laptop with Vista installed,
> how
> can I get the Vista laptop to do a remote desktop to the XP Pro machine?

In message <AE8434A4-F3E9-4536-861E-5AE06A7B5581@xxxxxx>
nightman28 <nightman28@xxxxxx> wrote:

>I have XP Pro at home on a desktop. I can access this computer with another
>XP computer no problem. I just bought a new laptop with Vista installed, how
>can I get the Vista laptop to do a remote desktop to the XP Pro machine?

Vista and XP are no different in this area -- Look for connectivity or
firewall issues.

I have solved the problem, I was connected to the same router so I need to
use my internal IP address and not my Internet IP address, but I would like
to thank everyone for the help.

"nightman28" wrote:

> I have XP Pro at home on a desktop. I can access this computer with another
> XP computer no problem. I just bought a new laptop with Vista installed, how
> can I get the Vista laptop to do a remote desktop to the XP Pro machine?