Re: RDP One-Way Only COME ON SOMEONE KIND!!

Al, thanks for your replying and the MVP fills me with hope!

Remote Assstance works fine both ways. It's my Xp Pro PC that can't connect
to anything be it Xp or Vista, within the LAN or elsewhere. Anyone can RDP my
PC no problem.

Thanks for pix, yes everything was already exactly like that.

"The computer can't connect to the remote computer. Try connecting again."

Nothing in Event Log.

"Sooner Al [MVP]" wrote:

"Simon" <Simon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Sorry, 2nd post, no reply after week.

There are routers involved (port 3389 open, everything set to accept RA
and
RDP connections), but doubt this is the problem as have also conducted the
below tests with the 2 PC's connected via dial-up only. I do notice when I
run netstat -an port 3389 appears as "Listening" and RDP is permitted in
both Firewall Exceptions and on the advanced tab in Network Connections. I
can ping all PCs all ways on the LAN.

EXPERT cannot make an RDP connection to anywhere, within the LAN or to an
outside PC. Client is v6.0.6000

However, EXPERT can both make and accept Remote Assistance requests
(method
used via Windows Live Messenger 8.1 on both PCs, both ways). I believe
the 2
technologies are similiar.

Seems therefore there is a setting on EXPERT that is preventing it from
making an RDP connection. I have chased down all the obvious suspects, no
joy. Probably needs a Registry tweak. All offers gratefully etc.



Well, reading your original post I am still a bit confused. Are you talking
about using Remote Desktop or Remote Assistance? This post seems to be about
Remote Desktop so lets clarify the situation.

It seems you are trying to use Remote Desktop (RDP) to access a Vista RDP
host PC from a XP client PC. Is that correct? If so make sure the XP client
is configured like this.

http://theillustratednetwork.mvps.org/ScreenShots/XP/RDP6-XPClientSettings.jpg

...and the Vista host is configured like this...

http://theillustratednetwork.mvps.org/ScreenShots/XP/RDP6-XPClienttoVistaServerConfig.jpg

If your trying to access a XP RDP host PC from a Vista client make sure the
Vista client is configured like this...

http://theillustratednetwork.mvps.org/ScreenShots/XP/RDP6-XPClientSettings.jpg

Beyond that what error message are you getting?

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