Remote desktop problems

[phoenix79]

Wasn't sure where to put this, but thought this may be the best place...

I am having trouble getting remote desktop to work on one computer on our network. I have enabled RD in the system properties and have it un-blocked in the windows firewall. I can ping the computer successfully but when I click connect on the remote desktop connection it just immediately fails with no error or anything, like it tries for about half a second then goes back to the connection screen. I've never seen RDP fail without an error. Has anyone else run into this before?

 

[RebateMonger]

The other thing to check is if any services that should be running (RPC, for instance) are enabled and have started.

 

[phoenix79]

Well, Bing led me here. I don't know why this works or what the initial problem was caused by but this fixed my problem after applying the registry tweak and a restart.

FYI, I also never knew you could remotely edit another computers registry over the network. This computer is in a locked office and the user is trying to work from home today so I couldn't get into her office but I was able to fix the problem anyway.

 

[RebateMonger]

The articles mention ATI driver updates. I've seen a couple of cases where ATI video drivers were causing problems with Remote Desktop.

 

[drebo]

Good find...I'd run into this on my home system, but didn't care enough to look into fixing it. Tagged for later.

 

[Paperlantern]

Remote management is super handy, if you have a C$ share accross the board on your network, coupled with all of the tools already included with windows, you can maipulate and change settings on any machine you want as well as add or remove files. There's a ton you can fix, I love it, good job.

 

[phoenix79]

Originally posted by: Paperlantern
Remote management is super handy, if you have a C$ share accross the board on your network, coupled with all of the tools already included with windows, you can maipulate and change settings on any machine you want as well as add or remove files. There's a ton you can fix, I love it, good job.

I knew you could remote manage through AD, but regedit lets you connect to another computer's registry too.