Windows 2000 clients reset connections?

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I've run into a rather odd problem with a new terminal services machine
I've set up...

I'm running the server on Windows 2000 AS inside a VMWare virtual
machine (host OS is 2003 R2 on x64), and have TS enabled in Application
Server mode. We're still on 2000 because of the steep licensing costs
associated with going to TS on 2003.

Here's where it gets weird - I have several terminals running Windows
2000 and acting basically as thin clients (Now, if MS would be willing
to actually sell me Windows Fundamentals, i'd be happy to buy a license
for each of these machines, but apparently MS doesn't want my money,
which strikes me as odd!). The remaining terminals that connect to this
server are running XP or Windows CE (HP Thin clients).

The XP and CE clients connect to it quite happily, whether it's inside
or outside the firewall (eliminating that as the problem). Several
other Windows 2000 clients will connect happily as well, but my
Check-In stations (the 2000 boxes in question) refuse to connect to
this new terminal server - the client comes back almost instantly with
a network error, which seems to be behaving like the connection has
been reset.

I've seen similar behaviour with reset connection when IIS has problem
with SSL, but that doesn't seem to be an issue on this system.

Any ideas on where to start looking for an answer to this?

Thanks!

.



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