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Need help to remote desktop into my main PC.

I have a nice very powerful windows computer with 2 LAN cards. One of the LAN cards is setup directly to the modem with DHCP Enabled (currently - IP 192.168.2.100 and Gateway of 192.168.2.1). The computer is accessing the internet with no problem

The other LAN card is what I need help with. I have an 2 XP computers in other rooms I would like to use to simply remote desktop into my main computer (wired with hub) via my second LAN card.

How should I configure the second card on my main computer to be able to access it from RD on the XP...

I currently have this:
IP - 192.168.1.120
subnet - 255.255.255.0
Gateway - 192.168.1.1

DNS - 192.168.2.1

It has been a few years since i have setup a network so I am a little rusty.

I can ping the main computer but cannot connect via RD... Not sure what is going on.
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Hi

2 questions, do you have RDP allowed on that box and b) what OS is on that machine?
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Yes RDP access Enabled
Windows 8.1 Pro
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ERROR: This computer can't connect to the remote computer

Not sure how to turn off firewall in 8.1
OK.. firewall off... still no connection
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Not sure what happened but I removed anything that had to do with RDP security in Group Policy and now it works...lol
It was the gateway as well...