RDP: Can only connect once, save for one machine on LAN!

Hello all,

I'm having a real odd issue right now with one of my clients and their
network. We recently set up a Wired/Wireless network with their three
laptops and two desktop PCs. The router we went with was the D-Link 624
(108mbps) router. All of the machines have either Windows XP Home or
Pro, all with Service Pack 2 and are up to date.

One of the laptops needs to connect via RDP to a Windows (Advanced?)
Server 2000 machine in order for the user to do her work. We were able
to connect once and *only* once to the machine and then got the usual
"Cannot connect to this computer" type of error. I repeated the whole
connect/try to reconnect thing with the other four machines, and only
one of the other laptops can connect time and time again. The other
machines do exactly what the first laptop did -- time out and return
the earlier-mentioned error.

All of the machines have a practically *identical* configuration, in
terms of things like services running and the Windows XP Firewall
(which was even disabled), and so I can't understand *why* only one
machine can connect. We feel it's an issue with the router since I can
connect to that terminal server from home and work from my laptop time
and time again, and so can the other PC we have here at work. We use a
Linksys WRT54GC at work and I use the WRT54GS at home. So is it an
issue with D-Link?

I also read somewhere here in the newsgroups that if Windows Server
2000 was running SP4 and had a certain update installed, it could muck
up RDP -- the only workaround was to uninstall that hotfix.

Sorry for being *really* long-winded, but I wanted to make sure all the
information I had was up and available to anyone who could help me out.
That said, thanks a bunch in advance!

.

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