remote access Vista through RDC?

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Polaris

Hi Experts:

I have been trying to make my Vista remotely accessible through Remote
Desktop Connection from a Windows XP, both machines are on the same subnet
and can ping each other, but not successful. I have turned off the Vista
Firewall, turned on all terminal services and remote access related
services. What am I missing?

Thanks in Advance!
Polaris
 
Polaris said:
Hi Experts:

I have been trying to make my Vista remotely accessible through Remote
Desktop Connection from a Windows XP, both machines are on the same subnet
and can ping each other, but not successful. I have turned off the Vista
Firewall, turned on all terminal services and remote access related
services. What am I missing?
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From a earlier post from bassie``:

http://www.tweakvista.eu/show_tweak.php?tweak=114

ss.
 
Thanks guys for your help. I also forgot to make changes on Control Panel -
Systems - Remote Settings ...

Polaris
 
I have a similar problem getting from XP --RDP--> Vista.

I have:

1. Remote Desktop set to "Any version of RD"

2. RDP 6.0 installed on XP

3. Firewall on with RDP excepted or no firewall

still I cannot connect. If I reboot the Vista machine in XP then I can
connect XP -> XP just fine so I don't think it's anything in the LAN setup.

When the firewall is on, I can see the RDP packets being dropped even though
a rule allowing RDP is enabled in all profiles.

More so the firewall seems to turn itself off at random even though the
network setup has not changed.

What's weird is that even if the firewall is off I cannot ping the Vista
machine.

Vista has been very frustrating for me from the get go...

Any ideas?

Nick
 
Hi,

Click start, type FIREWALL and choose the second one from the menu (not the
advanced version). Go to the General tab, make sure "Block all incoming
connections" is not checked. If it is, all exceptions are ignored and any
attempt at RDP will not go through. While there, recheck the exceptions tab
to make sure RDP is indeed enabled.

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
 
Rick Rogers said:
Hi,
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Hi Rick,
Click start, type FIREWALL and choose the second one from the menu (not
the advanced version). Go to the General tab, make sure "Block all
incoming connections" is not checked.
No.

If it is, all exceptions are ignored and any attempt at RDP will not go
through. While there, recheck the exceptions tab to make sure RDP is indeed
enabled.
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And no. :|

I'm at wits' end on this.

Nick
 
I have OneCare Beta. But I've selected "All computers, including those on
the Internet" for Remote Desktop under Advanced Firewall settings.

What's weird is that even if I drop all the firewalls I think can't connect.

Nick
 
Just for "fun" I installed Vista again on a different partition on the same
machine. This time I did no install OneCare Beta.

Guess what? Remote Desktop works like a charm.

Nick
 
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