Very interesting problem - RDC connects to wrong machine?!

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You and your ISP's tech support should be running tracert commands to see
what is really happening here.

Tracert is a command-line command.

If both you and your ISP see this strange machine, the problem isn't
Windows, nor is it any addressing mechanism local to your machine--a HOSTS
file, for example.

See if you can get this bumped up a bit in the troubleshooting department at
the ISP--you need better help from them.

"Richard" <richburman@REMOVE.hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:3c2401c49f26$ca3a5290$a401280a@phx.gbl...
> Hi everyone,
>
> Here's a weird problem I'm having with my machine at the
> moment. I've been trying to connect to my home PC using a
> Remote Desktop Connection.
>
> I have an ADSL connection with a static IP address
> assigned to my home network which is behind a NAT
> router/ADSL modem. I have redirected the standard RDC port
> (3389) to aim at my PC when an incoming connection
> arrives. Oh, my PC is running Windows XP Pro.
>
> When I aimed a connection from my work PC to my static IP,
> I get a connection without any errors... except one little
> thing. It's not my machine that I see?! The connection is
> to a Windows 2003 Server on a domain called ELETTRONICA
> and NTLANCT, my PC isn't on a domain at all.
>
> I contacted my ISP and they confirm that they see the same
> PC when using my IP address - not mine. They think that
> its something weird happening inside Windows that's
> causing the connection to redirect somehow.
>
> The fact that ELETTRONICA is 'Electronics' in Italian,
> makes it all that bit stranger. Is someone spoofing my IP
> address or something? I haven't the foggiest what's going
> on. Anyone have any ideas?
>
> Cheers,
> Richard.
>

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Okay, now I'm getting somewhere. I turned off my machine
and unplugged my ADSL router so that there is nothing
listening at all on my IP address. After attempting to
connect this morning, the connection is refused.

I guess that only leaves the ADSL router and my Windows
box at fault here, but I'm still mystified how either of
those would be redirection incoming connections on port
3389 to an entirely different machine? Behind the router,
my home PC has a 192.168.0.xxx address because of the NAT
and I've set the port redirection to that machine. Ergo,
any machine trying to connect to my IP should fall through
the NAT to my Windows XP Pro machine.

I suppose the next thing to do is turn the router back on
but leave my PC off. If I get redirected, I know it's
something to do with the router.

The traceroute seems to make sense. The route migrates
from my work network through an intermediary ISP then ends
up on a DNS resembling my home ISP before ending when it
gets to my machine, which is currently turned off so
there's no reply. I'll have to try this again once I
turned some things back on.

Cheers for your help!
Richard.

>-----Original Message-----
>unplug your pc and try to connect then.
>
>"Richard" <richburman@REMOVE.hotmail.com> wrote in
message
>news:3c2401c49f26$ca3a5290$a401280a@phx.gbl...
>> Hi everyone,
>>
>> Here's a weird problem I'm having with my machine at the
>> moment. I've been trying to connect to my home PC using
a
>> Remote Desktop Connection.
>>
>> I have an ADSL connection with a static IP address
>> assigned to my home network which is behind a NAT
>> router/ADSL modem. I have redirected the standard RDC
port
>> (3389) to aim at my PC when an incoming connection
>> arrives. Oh, my PC is running Windows XP Pro.
>>
>> When I aimed a connection from my work PC to my static
IP,
>> I get a connection without any errors... except one
little
>> thing. It's not my machine that I see?! The connection
is
>> to a Windows 2003 Server on a domain called ELETTRONICA
>> and NTLANCT, my PC isn't on a domain at all.
>>
>> I contacted my ISP and they confirm that they see the
same
>> PC when using my IP address - not mine. They think that
>> its something weird happening inside Windows that's
>> causing the connection to redirect somehow.
>>
>> The fact that ELETTRONICA is 'Electronics' in Italian,
>> makes it all that bit stranger. Is someone spoofing my
IP
>> address or something? I haven't the foggiest what's
going
>> on. Anyone have any ideas?
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Richard.
>>
>
>
>.
>

Archived from groups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.work_remotely (More info?)

The router being at fault makes perfect sense. It won't be redirecting
pings, so tracert probably won't help. Consider setting the thing back to
factory defaults, maybe upgrading to newest firmware, and putting the
forwarding back in and seeing if that fixes it.

"Richard" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:452f01c49fba$1b4ab1f0$a401280a@phx.gbl...
> Okay, now I'm getting somewhere. I turned off my machine
> and unplugged my ADSL router so that there is nothing
> listening at all on my IP address. After attempting to
> connect this morning, the connection is refused.
>
> I guess that only leaves the ADSL router and my Windows
> box at fault here, but I'm still mystified how either of
> those would be redirection incoming connections on port
> 3389 to an entirely different machine? Behind the router,
> my home PC has a 192.168.0.xxx address because of the NAT
> and I've set the port redirection to that machine. Ergo,
> any machine trying to connect to my IP should fall through
> the NAT to my Windows XP Pro machine.
>
> I suppose the next thing to do is turn the router back on
> but leave my PC off. If I get redirected, I know it's
> something to do with the router.
>
> The traceroute seems to make sense. The route migrates
> from my work network through an intermediary ISP then ends
> up on a DNS resembling my home ISP before ending when it
> gets to my machine, which is currently turned off so
> there's no reply. I'll have to try this again once I
> turned some things back on.
>
> Cheers for your help!
> Richard.
>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>You and your ISP's tech support should be running tracert
> commands to see
>>what is really happening here.
>>
>>Tracert is a command-line command.
>>
>>If both you and your ISP see this strange machine, the
> problem isn't
>>Windows, nor is it any addressing mechanism local to your
> machine--a HOSTS
>>file, for example.
>>
>>See if you can get this bumped up a bit in the
> troubleshooting department at
>>the ISP--you need better help from them.
>>
>>"Richard" <richburman@REMOVE.hotmail.com> wrote in
> message
>>news:3c2401c49f26$ca3a5290$a401280a@phx.gbl...
>>> Hi everyone,
>>>
>>> Here's a weird problem I'm having with my machine at the
>>> moment. I've been trying to connect to my home PC using
> a
>>> Remote Desktop Connection.
>>>
>>> I have an ADSL connection with a static IP address
>>> assigned to my home network which is behind a NAT
>>> router/ADSL modem. I have redirected the standard RDC
> port
>>> (3389) to aim at my PC when an incoming connection
>>> arrives. Oh, my PC is running Windows XP Pro.
>>>
>>> When I aimed a connection from my work PC to my static
> IP,
>>> I get a connection without any errors... except one
> little
>>> thing. It's not my machine that I see?! The connection
> is
>>> to a Windows 2003 Server on a domain called ELETTRONICA
>>> and NTLANCT, my PC isn't on a domain at all.
>>>
>>> I contacted my ISP and they confirm that they see the
> same
>>> PC when using my IP address - not mine. They think that
>>> its something weird happening inside Windows that's
>>> causing the connection to redirect somehow.
>>>
>>> The fact that ELETTRONICA is 'Electronics' in Italian,
>>> makes it all that bit stranger. Is someone spoofing my
> IP
>>> address or something? I haven't the foggiest what's
> going
>>> on. Anyone have any ideas?
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> Richard.
>>>
>>
>>
>>.
>>

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Disregard that..... the router isn't gonna route to the wan side unless you
have a static route built and its set as a router instead of a gateway....
not sure what it could be but gotta try something..plug the router in and
give it a go!

"Demus" <Me@somewhereelse.com> wrote in message
news:Tm24d.22526$wV.2013@attbi_s54...
> Did you double check that the ip address of the forwarding is infact
> 192.168.x.x?? One number off and you could be going to a public ip
> somewhere in the cloud.
>
> <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:2be801c49fb5$59082720$a501280a@phx.gbl...
>> Okay, now I'm getting somewhere. I turned off my machine
>> and unplugged my ADSL router so that there is nothing
>> listening at all on my IP address. After attempting to
>> connect this morning, the connection is refused.
>>
>> I guess that only leaves the ADSL router and my Windows
>> box at fault here, but I'm still mystified how either of
>> those would be redirection incoming connections on port
>> 3389 to an entirely different machine? Behind the router,
>> my home PC has a 192.168.0.xxx address because of the NAT
>> and I've set the port redirection to that machine. Ergo,
>> any machine trying to connect to my IP should fall through
>> the NAT to my Windows XP Pro machine.
>>
>> I suppose the next thing to do is turn the router back on
>> but leave my PC off. If I get redirected, I know it's
>> something to do with the router.
>>
>> The traceroute seems to make sense. The route migrates
>> from my work network through an intermediary ISP then ends
>> up on a DNS resembling my home ISP before ending when it
>> gets to my machine, which is currently turned off so
>> there's no reply. I'll have to try this again once I
>> turned some things back on.
>>
>> Cheers for your help!
>> Richard.
>>
>>>-----Original Message-----
>>>unplug your pc and try to connect then.
>>>
>>>"Richard" <richburman@REMOVE.hotmail.com> wrote in
>> message
>>>news:3c2401c49f26$ca3a5290$a401280a@phx.gbl...
>>>> Hi everyone,
>>>>
>>>> Here's a weird problem I'm having with my machine at the
>>>> moment. I've been trying to connect to my home PC using
>> a
>>>> Remote Desktop Connection.
>>>>
>>>> I have an ADSL connection with a static IP address
>>>> assigned to my home network which is behind a NAT
>>>> router/ADSL modem. I have redirected the standard RDC
>> port
>>>> (3389) to aim at my PC when an incoming connection
>>>> arrives. Oh, my PC is running Windows XP Pro.
>>>>
>>>> When I aimed a connection from my work PC to my static
>> IP,
>>>> I get a connection without any errors... except one
>> little
>>>> thing. It's not my machine that I see?! The connection
>> is
>>>> to a Windows 2003 Server on a domain called ELETTRONICA
>>>> and NTLANCT, my PC isn't on a domain at all.
>>>>
>>>> I contacted my ISP and they confirm that they see the
>> same
>>>> PC when using my IP address - not mine. They think that
>>>> its something weird happening inside Windows that's
>>>> causing the connection to redirect somehow.
>>>>
>>>> The fact that ELETTRONICA is 'Electronics' in Italian,
>>>> makes it all that bit stranger. Is someone spoofing my
>> IP
>>>> address or something? I haven't the foggiest what's
>> going
>>>> on. Anyone have any ideas?
>>>>
>>>> Cheers,
>>>> Richard.
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>.
>>>
>
>

Cheers on the effort and welcome to Tom's. Though, check the post date on the message. It's 5 years old.