Hi All,

I am attempting to set up Remote Desktop Connections so I can see my Vista
(Business) box at home from my XP box at work.

When I go to Internet Connection Sharing and tick the 'Allow other network
users to connect through this computer's Internet connection' and then OK.
There is a pause before I get the message:

"An error occured while Internet Connection Sharing was being enabled."

I am logged in as administarator and can't seeany reason that I can't turn
this on? Any ideas, suggestions, solutions would be appriciated.

TIA

Are you want to use remote desktop or Internet Connection Sharing? They are different. To enable remote Desktop, this how to may help,

remote desktopTo use Remote Desktop, you need a WinXP Pro as the host and a remote computer running Win9x or a more recent version of Windows as the client that must have ...
www.howtonetworking.com/rdesktop.htm


Bob Lin, MS-MVP, MCSE & CNE
Networking, Internet, Routing, VPN Troubleshooting on http://www.ChicagoTech.net
How to Setup Windows, Network, VPN & Remote Access on http://www.HowToNetworking.com
"Matthew" wrote in message ...
Hi All,

I am attempting to set up Remote Desktop Connections so I can see my Vista
(Business) box at home from my XP box at work.

When I go to Internet Connection Sharing and tick the 'Allow other network
users to connect through this computer's Internet connection' and then OK.
There is a pause before I get the message:

"An error occured while Internet Connection Sharing was being enabled."

I am logged in as administarator and can't seeany reason that I can't turn
this on? Any ideas, suggestions, solutions would be appriciated.

TIA

Thanks for this. All I want to do is use Remote Desktop Connection to
connect to my Vista box from my XP box, over the Internet. I have recently
updated to Vista, it worked fine when both boxes were XP so I think the
firewall is set up correctly.

I can connect to other machines (XP) on my home network using Remote Desktop
Connection but cannot connect to my Vista machine from outside.



"Robert L [MVP - Networking]" wrote:

Are you want to use remote desktop or Internet Connection Sharing? They are different. To enable remote Desktop, this how to may help,

remote desktopTo use Remote Desktop, you need a WinXP Pro as the host and a remote computer running Win9x or a more recent version of Windows as the client that must have ...
www.howtonetworking.com/rdesktop.htm


Bob Lin, MS-MVP, MCSE & CNE
Networking, Internet, Routing, VPN Troubleshooting on http://www.ChicagoTech.net
How to Setup Windows, Network, VPN & Remote Access on http://www.HowToNetworking.com
"Matthew" wrote in message ...
Hi All,

I am attempting to set up Remote Desktop Connections so I can see my Vista
(Business) box at home from my XP box at work.

When I go to Internet Connection Sharing and tick the 'Allow other network
users to connect through this computer's Internet connection' and then OK.
There is a pause before I get the message:

"An error occured while Internet Connection Sharing was being enabled."

I am logged in as administarator and can't seeany reason that I can't turn
this on? Any ideas, suggestions, solutions would be appriciated.

TIA