RE: Can RDP to One but not the other...

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Since the terminal server service can't be manually
started/restarted/stopped, you need to restart the server to get your new
port setting.
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Patrick Rouse
Microsoft MVP - Terminal Server
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"ola_atb" wrote:

> Hello all,
>
> I have two 2003 servers, one is the AD and the other has exchange server
> 2003 on it. I only have a webserver running on the AD and it has very little
> load. I think I might have tried to fiddle with Terminal Services on the
> first server when I first installed the servers, but I am not quite sure.
> Right now, I am not at home base, and will not be for a while. So I walked my
> assistant through enabling remote desktop on both Servers. However, because I
> valued the exchange server more than the webserver, I decided to change the
> port on the webserver. So we changed the port from 3389 to 3390 on the
> webserver, using regedit.
>
> I then proceeded to forward the ports on my router. Now I can RDP to the
> Exchange server, but when I try to rdp to the webserver by using the Win XP
> RDP Client and typing webserver.mydomain.com:3390, I get an error message
>
> The specified remote computer could not be found. Verify that you have typed
> the correct computer name or IP address, and then try connecting again.
>
> Did we need to restart the server after changing the RDP port number before
> it works, or is there something I might have missed?
>
> Assuming I fiddled with Terminal Services because I thought I would need to
> remotely get to the server, and did not fully configure it, could that be the
> problem, and if so, how do I get terminal services to the default stage so
> that RDP can work?
>
> Thanks in advance
> --
> An Avvid Student
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