[ale] RDP Throwin' Cannot-Find-Host Error

[sean.mcnealy at gmail.com (Sean McNealy)]

> 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?