Windows 10: Remote desktop from windows phone

Been playing with the rmote desktop app on win 8.1 phone and cant get it to connect to the win 10 desktop but works fine on my other win 8.1 pc.

Can someone confirm remote desktop works on win 10.

Tim

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How do I Remote Control my Windows Phone 8 from my Windows 8 PC?

you are mixing a few things. windows RT can remote desktop into OTHER computers that SUPPORT remote desktop. you cannot remote desktop INTO a windows RT machine.

likewise, there is a remote desktop app for windows phone - but it only works to connect to computers that support remote desktop. not to remote into the phone.

 

How do I Remote Control my Windows Phone 8 from my Windows 8 PC?

Hi,

thanks for the precisions about Windows RT. I should not have included that feature suggestion however.

I removed it now.

Best regards

 

Well also it doesn't seem to work from a Win 8 machine either, tried numerous times and the connection is rejected. Also I not in Win 10 the feedback app has disappeared in build 10240 so cant report it or am I missing it?

Checked remote desktop settings and they are enabled unless there are another lot in the new Settings app?

Tim

 

Just in case anyone is looking for the solution to this the problem is windows firewall. Remote desktop needs to be added to the public network in order to get incoming calls.

In windows 10, right click windows button, control panel, small icons, windows firewall, view allowed applications, highlight remote desktop and click change setting and enable public network, then click ok.

 

Just to add to this, incoming remote connections work of course without a need to manually edit firewall settings if the remote host network is set to Private. Firewall rule needs to added only when a user for one or another reason wants to or needs to the network location being set to Public.

Network Location - Set to Private or Public in Windows 10 - Windows 10 Forums

 

Many thanks for showing me the proper way to configure this using Private Network and I have now adjusted my firewall to block public remote desktops.

 

You are welcome. It's more secure not to allow incoming remote connections in public networks like hotels, airports and such on a laptop. A desktop is a different story then but I can see no reason to use a public network location on a home desktop.