My question is, how do I find the computer name/ip address of the computer?
Is it the IPv6 address in ipconfig?

that’s your address as it’s visible to the outside.
Does that change each time I reboot my computer or router?
Cable internet doesn’t use static IP addresses anymore, right?

it’s not static but mine hasn’t changed in a while (but it could without warning)

if you need to be sure, use this

Some routers come with built in updating of the Dynamic DNS entry. Don’t know how well it works though.

On the other hand, mine changes about once a year.
You’ll also need to tell the router to redirect incoming traffic on the RDP port (I don’t know the number) to the internal IP address of the computer you want to connect to.

The better option, though, is to use a router with a built-in VPN.

Port 3389

nice lookin’ out
forward port 3389 to your internal ip address of your computer
set up dyndns.com
most modern router will have dynamic dns settings for popular services such as dyndns.com…..my 5 yo linksys router does
set up remote desktop on your computer
done

forget that. disable windows firewall and set your computer to DMZ on the the router!!

jk. don’t do that.

While he’s at it, he should disable NAT and turn off the router’s firewall too. Firewalls only degrade connection speed anyway.

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My Vista PC cannot access the printer. Any settings I should have on or off to do this?

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Can you ping the XP machine from the Vista one?
Can you get to //xp_machine from the Vista one?

I tried it with it off. Doesn’t work.

Might you need to install a Vista driver on the XP machine? I tried to share a windows printer to a mac yesterday (failed), and it asked about this at the time I set it up – said I might need to install drivers for other versions on the sharing PC.

Oh sorry. Somehow missed this post.

I can ping the XP machine from the Vista one. 4 sent, 4 received.

Do you mean I should go into my computer and type //xpmachinename into the address bar? Because that doesn’t contact it either, same problem as below.

What is extremely odd is I can see the other computers on the network within network connections. If I double click them it says the host name is invalid.

I’ll look into this.

Try it again with \ instead of //

Tried both.
I also found some people saying you could access a network printer by adding a local printer and creating a new network port. That didn’t work either. Just in case someone suggests that.
Sorry… I did have the wrong slashes in there

You will need a Vista printer driver, but the problem is that you can’t even connect to the machine…

Just for kicks, try turning off IPv6 on the Vista machine and see if that clears up the connection issues.

WOW I can indeed. Now that’s interesting.

I tried the Vista printer driver, but it as you say when it looked for the printer it wasnt there. But as I’ve just managed to connect to it with 192.168.0.4 I will fiddle about with it, see what I can do.
That got it. Connected with 192.168.0.4 and right clicked the HP icon and clicked connect. Job done.

Cheers guys.
Yeah, NetBEAUI and windows browsing via it sucks. But you can usually get there via the IP.

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I found this on the internet and haven’t tested it yet since I’m hesitant to start whacking away at the registry just yet:

Does anyone else have any ideas?

By the way, I noticed the problem while streaming video from my laptop to my XBox360. Every so often the connection will drop. I opened the Network and Sharing Center in the control panel and I saw the icon for the network connection change right before the connection dropped.
are you using an old or cheap router, it may be dying on you

the router is a bit old. it is a linksys wrt54gl v1.1 router running DD-WRT v23 SP2 (pretty old firmware). i think i’m going to try flashing it with the v24 SP1 firmware to see if that helps.
I have Vista Home Basic on my laptop. The only issue I had for a while, was it would connect to the network, but local only. It wouldnt connect to the internet. I ended up resetting the router after a day or so of fucking with it, and it worked again.

My router will also "forget" all the port forwarding options every week or so, which requires a reset to fix. Old routers definitely have a big effect. Im running a version 2 Linksys WRT54G. At least 3 years old.
Some routers just don’t play nice with the IPv6 protocol, so go into your network settings and turn everything related to IPv6 off.

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