Connecting to a 2000 Pro machine when not logged in

[Paul Montgomery]

Hello everyone, I apologize if this question has been asked before but I
couldn't find anything on it in the archives.

I have a standalone pc that is outside our network and has it's own external
ip address. It won't let me connect unless I'm actually logged in to that
machine already. By this I mean that it won't even find the machine when I'm
not logged in to it. I get the 'Failed To Connect To Server" message. I have
many other machines on our internal network that I can connect to from either
within the network or outside the network without being logged in.

Any help would be greatly appreciated

Thanks,

Paul Montgomery
IT Manager
FMMI