I have a laptop and a desktop networked together. When I first networked the two machines together I could "remote" into my desktop pc just fine. Since then I have set up both computers on an the same workgroup. Now I can't "remote" into my desktop pc anymore. Any suggestions?

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Could you list the operating systems you are using on the computers please.

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JB.

Hey jhstoud, welcome to PCHF.

Setting up a workgroup would not affect RDP.

First of all, make sure that the two PC's can see each other by using the ping command, go to Start, Run, and type in cmd. Type in ping followed by the IP address of the other PC and see if you get a response?

Windows XP home edition on the desktop pc, Windows XP pro on the laptop. I can ping the desktop machine and receive a response. I can also access shared documents on that PC.

Great stuff.

Firstly, check the firewall on the desktop machine (if enabled), and make sure that port 3389 is not being blocked?

Another way to find out if you can access the PC on port 3389, from the laptop is to try a telnet session, again from the command prompt,

telnet ipaddress 3389
for example: telnet 192.168.0.2 3389

If Remote Desktop is not enabled on the PC, or a firewall is blocking it, you will receive a message: Could not open connection to the host, on port 3389: Connect failed

On a successful connection, the screen will clear, and you will see a flashing cursor on the top left hand corner of the command window - press [Enter] to return to the prompt.

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