Remote Desktop Issue

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Maurice

Have a vista desktop and two laptops on the same subnet. Laptop A can RDP to
the vista machine but not Laptop B. Laptop B can be pinged from Laptop A.
Laptop B has allowed remote desktop accessibility, has firewall configured
for remote desktop as well. It is my understanding that no additional ports
need be opened. How can one troubleshoot this?
 
Much thanks for your timely reply. The response was as follows: Connecting
To 3389...Could not open port connection to the host, on port 23: connect
failed. Continued guidance sought.
 
Please follow this link to make sure port 3389 is used by RDP.
How to find open ports on a computer
To display all open ports, open DOS command, type netstat and press
Enter. ... For example, to find if the port 3389 is open or not, do
netstat -an |find /i ...
www.howtonetworking.com/command/openport1.htm


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