Re: No Remote Desktop After SP2 Install

From: Bill Sanderson (Bill_Sanderson_at_msn.com.plugh.org)
Date: 08/22/04 

Date: Sun, 22 Aug 2004 10:36:23 -0400

Is there any chance there was a leftover service from Zone Alarm still
running on the SP2 machine which failed, even though Zone Alarm was not in
use at the time?

"edn2" <edn2@someplace.com> wrote in message
news:OkGlXPUhEHA.3664@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...
>I should mention that I also installed SP2 on my laptop and terminal
>services work fine on it. I'm not sure what it is about the two machines
>is making the difference, but I am guessing it is hardware because I run
>nearly identical software configurations (with the exception of server
>stuff and games which I don't run on the laptop). The primary hardware
>differnces are that the desktop CPU/chipset/video is AMD/nVidia/nVidia and
>the laptop is Intel/Intel/Intel.
>
> As for the server software, I run apache (over ssl) and openvpn servers on
> my desktop machine. These continued to work, even when I enabled the SP2
> firewall. But I never told the firewall to allow them! Terminal services
> failed, even as I was able to confirm the firewall settings from the
> command line. I would just say I don't understand how to use the SP2
> firewall, but I experienced problems even with it turned completely off
> (red lights, warning shield, and all).
>
> Nick Goodall wrote:
>
>> Right, got slightly further.
>>
>> I tried it in 'Safe Mode With Networking' and it connects first time
>> every time.
>>
>> I've tried changing the port from 3389 to 3390 and the did not help.
>>
>> I've tried stripping out all msconfig startup programs and non-microsoft
>> services to try to get as close to safe mode but still running windows
>> normally - still not working.
>>
>> I have again tried with the firewall off and on. One thing I did notice
>> is that with the firewall on when you look in the firewall log file there
>> is no entry in there for this remote connection. So it's not even getting
>> as far as that level.
>>
>> Nick
>>

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