If you are trying to connect to your mac book / windows vm within your own network, then your router is irrelevant! Your problem is between your mac book and the vm as your macbook has the ip address from the router and your vm is using an ip address either set by yourself or given by the setup of the vm. You need to port forward port 3389 on your macbook to the ip address of your vm. Or setup I think it's host as the networking type of the vm.
You can rdp from the vm to your netbook because the vm doesn't see the mac book as being there even though it is. But when you try to go from the netbook to the vm, the rdp connection needs to go through the mac first to get to the vm / windows rdp service. I do this from both inside and outside my network all the time and port forwarding is the key. I would assume that you can tell the macbook to forward any traffic on port 3389 to be directed to the ip of the vm hoefully making this work for you. Also, ensure you have remote desktop support set up on the vm so that your connection is authorised by the system to work. If it's not you wont connect. -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Mike Sent: Friday, 17 September 2010 2:10 p.m. To: MacVisionaries Subject: re_remote desktop and win xp pro vm Hi Garry: Yes, I want to use my netbook, which runs window eyes and remote into my win xp pro vm. I just tried opening a port on my Mac firewall but it wouldn't allow me to add my vm to except a connection. I don't think I need to do anything with the router because like I said in my previous post, my mac and netbook can see each other and share files fine. So perhaps you can email me off list, [email protected] with the nessessary steps? Window eyes has screen reader support for remote desktop which is why I want to use it. VNC doesn't. Thanks: Michael -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
