Solved Can't RDP to Windows 7 machine

[rosede]

I have a headless Windows 7 machine that just sits and runs quietly. Occasionally I RDP in to make a change, but normally, it just runs with no issues.

I lost power a week ago, and the machine went down hard. I am now just getting a chance to look at it. I brought it back up, but I can't RDP to it. I put a monitor and keyboard on it, and everything looks good, I can't see any issues, but I still can't RDP to it. I ran troubleshooting on the RDP process, and it came back with no issues, but I still can't RDP to it. I check my firewall, virus protection everything that I can think of, but I still can't RDP. I've run out of idea's.

If someone can give me some hints or suggestions on what else to look at, I would appreciate it.

Thanks

Daryl

P.S. I forgot to mention that I can ping the machine and I can also telnet to port 3389, so that tells me that RDP is listening and there is nothing blocking the port.

Thanks

Daryl

 

[samuria]

Try connecting via IP instead of name

 

[townsbg]

Your specs say home premium. RDP connections are allowed on Professional, ultimate, and enterprise but not the home versions.

 

[rosede]

Hello everyone,

Sorry for my late reply. And thank you to everyone who did reply and make suggestions. I finally found a setting in my RDP client that was the issue. Not sure how it got changed, but it did. I was blaming the Windows 7 machine because of the power outage, but it was really on the client.

Daryl

 

[townsbg]

Please share. It might help someone else.