[ale] RDP Throwin' Cannot-Find-Host Error
Marc Ferguson
marcferguson at gmail.com
Fri Jan 9 15:43:50 EST 2009
On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 3:15 PM, Sean McNealy <sean.mcnealy at gmail.com> wrote:
> > What was really freaky was, I ran Windows XP, in VirtualBox and I was
> able
> > to connect, but it then threw an error about an Xsession already going.
> So;
> > I thought I'll log out of my linux box and connect using my Windows
> laptop.
> > I was unable to even find the host. I could ping my computer, but RDP
> > couldn't find my host.
>
> Any chance your linux machine is running a firewall you don't know
> about or haven't configured yet? That's my first guess.
>
> Have you tried to telnet to 3389?
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Hi,
I can certainly look into that when I get home. I new to all of this, so
SSH, Telnet, RDP, they're all new. I'll have to look into how to telnet
into my machine. As for firewall, are you talking about a software or
hardware firewall? Thanks for the response.
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Marc F.
www.fergytech.com
Registered Linux User: #410978
"When life gives me lemons... I make Linuxaide, hmm good stuff!" -Marc F.
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