I recently installed Vista Enterprise. I haven't had any success enabling remote desktop. First off, under the System Properties Remote tab page, I've selected "Allow connections from computers running any version of Remote Desktop (less secure)." Second, I made sure that I enabled the Remote Desktop exception to Windows firewall. Third, all Terminal Services related services are started. Fourth, running netstat -an shows that the computer is listening on port 3389 on 0.0.0.0, but not on 127.0.0.1, nor on my local network address assigned by the router. Trying to probe the port from grc.com shows that it's stealth when Windows Firewall is on but closed when Windows firewall is off. Trying an unrelated program on a different port and allowing an exception through the firewell showed that the port was open. Is there anything that I may be overlooking? TIA.
So I'm guessing you're trying to remote desktop from outside your lan. Then you need to go into your router and route the ports used for remote desktop to the destination computer's ip address forr remote desktop to work outside your lan. -- fuzor_silverbolt
fuzor_silverbolt wrote: > So I'm guessing you're trying to remote desktop from outside your lan. Correct. > Then you need to go into your router and route the ports used for remote > desktop to the destination computer's ip address forr remote desktop to > work outside your lan. Which I have already done I believe. I have noticed that regardless of whether I forward the port to the machine in question, running a port probe on port 3389 shows that it's closed (as long as Windows firewall is off). Also, attempting to telnet (from outside the LAN) into the computer on port 3389 results in a connection refused error. The result doesn't change regardless of which Remote Desktop connection option I choose under the Remote tab of the System Properties dialog.
fuzor_silverbolt wrote: <snip> Anyway, I finally solved the problem. It turns out that there was a problem with my router. I had to disable all the forwarded ports and renable the ones I needed. That allowed port 3389 to be seen as open from outside the LAN. In any case, thanks for your help.
