<div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 3:15 PM, Sean McNealy <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:sean.mcnealy@gmail.com">sean.mcnealy@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div class="Ih2E3d">> What was really freaky was, I ran Windows XP, in VirtualBox and I was able<br>> to connect, but it then threw an error about an Xsession already going. So;<br>> I thought I'll log out of my linux box and connect using my Windows laptop.<br>
> I was unable to even find the host. I could ping my computer, but RDP<br>> couldn't find my host.<br><br></div>Any chance your linux machine is running a firewall you don't know<br>about or haven't configured yet? That's my first guess.<br>
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<div><br>Hi,</div>
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<div>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.<br clear="all">
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