Re: Cannot Remote Desktop to home PC after installing XP SP3

OK, nVidia again, eh?
I would appreciate it if you could post the exact registry key and
the version of the nVidia driver which is causing this problem!

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Vera Noest
MCSE, CCEA, Microsoft MVP - Terminal Server
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=?Utf-8?B?RXZhbiBLYXll?= <EvanKaye@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote on 19 aug 2008:

I found the problem. Apparently the latest nVidia drivers break
Remote Desktop unless a registry tweak is made. I'll give it a
try and report back if it doesn't work.

"Vera Noest [MVP]" wrote:

Is the PC listening on the rdp port? When you type "netstat
-an" (without the quotes), do you see something like:

Prot. Local address Ext. address Status
TCP 0.0.0.0:3389 0.0.0.0:0 LISTENING

or whatever port you have configured for rdp?

Are there any Events in the EventLog on the PC which can't be
reached?
Are you connecting from a client which runs rdp 6.x? What are
the settings under Advanced - server authentication?
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MCSE, CCEA, Microsoft MVP - Terminal Server
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=?Utf-8?B?RXZhbiBLYXll?= <Evan Kaye@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote on 18 aug 2008 in
microsoft.public.windows.terminal_services:

I know Remote Desktop isn't strictly speaking "Terminal
Services", but it seemed to be the closest match. After
installing Windows XP Service Pack 3 on my home system, I
cannot connect to it by Remote Desktop. The client seems to
be trying to connect for a moment, and then automatically
cancels less than a second later, with no error message
(whereas I DO get an error if I try to connect to the wrong
machine or port). I have tried connecting from outside my
home network, from another PC on my network over the router's
WAN interface, from the other PC directly to the local
network address, and from the PC in question itself to the
WAN interface (it won't let me try to connect to its own
local address); same result every time. Remote Desktop worked
fine before I installed SP3.

I have rebooted my system, disabled and re-enabled Remote
Desktop in System Properties, and added accounts explicitly
to those allowed to logon over Terminal Services using
secpol.msc (they were already members of Remote Desktop
Users). I used to connect over a non-standard port for
security reasons, which was mapped to 3389 by the router. I
changed it so the non-standard port is passed straight
through the router, and changed the PC's RDP port in the
registry; issue unchanged. Windows Firewall was and is
disabled.

Using Wireshark, I can confirm that the RDP client packets
are reaching the serving PC. If I post the capture here,
will someone be able to look into it and tell me what's
wrong?
.

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