I support zigzag's recommendation re Team Viewer.
IMHO it is without peer.
Used here also daily for long stretches at a time.
Have found it to be fast & reliable.
Suggest you check it out.
See if it will do what Remote Desktop is giving you grief with.
TeamViewer - Free Remote Access and Remote Desktop Sharing over the Internet
in elevated command prompt
netsh advfirewall firewall set rule group="remote desktop" new enable=Yes
Do this on PC1 to which you can't connect and try again. Also try to use correct username instead of PC1\username
Last edited by Kaktussoft; 17 Nov 2011 at 15:21.
Yes Teamviewer is a great program, but I would like to get under the hood of Windows on this one. It would be good to know
@ Kaktussoft: First line works. The second two commands said: "No Rules match the specified criteria". But I tried the connection again, still doesn't work. Even turned off Windows Firewall. Nothing
netstat -an
in elevated command prompt
is port 3389 listening?
Thanks Kaktussoft, your posts were helpful. Found the problem though. I changed my username a while back on PC1, but it was only the display name that changed, not the actual username. So my username was wrong. Thanks a lot for everyone's' help, it really helped me picking up my problem.(idiot operator)
When configuring "remote desktop" you had to select users. How come you didn't notice the username problem? anyway the problem has been solved.
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