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  • January 4, 2005 at 8:57 am #2272983

    Remote Desktop broken with XP SP2

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    by rick614 · about 17 years, 4 months ago

    One of the staff in our office recently purchased a new Toshiba portable (Satellite P35-S609) with XP Home SP2(it was pre installed with SP2, not and upgrade). He is having problems accessing his desktop PC at the office with Remote Desktop. His desktop is running XP Pro SP1 and I can use the Toshiba and connect to his desktop when the Toshiba is plugged into the LAN (not signed on as a network member). We also have a remote office with DSL and the desktops there can also connect to his office PC through a VPN. The problem seems to occur when accessing the PC through a VPN with this portable only. I also have an older Dell portable running XP Home SP1 that can access his desktop through a dial-up and VPN connection.
    With the Toshiba I have tried configuring the firewall for Remote Desktop and disabling the firewall. I have disabled Norton AV2004 (it does not have Norton Internet Protection). I have added a value to the registry for TcpWindowSize (a fix I had to do on all of the XP machines being used as clients). I have even tried copying the ?termsrv.dll? from a machine running XP Pro SP1 and replacing the one in the Toshiba with no luck.
    When I try to connect, I am able to establish the dial-up connection and the VPN also starts with no problem. When I attempt to connect with remote desktop I get the normal blue screen with the bar at the top and then nothing. After about a minute I get an error message stating that the connection to the remote computer has been broken.
    Microsoft is supposedly working on this for me but I have not heard from them for a few days. Thanks for any help you can give.

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    • January 4, 2005 at 5:47 pm #3299211

      Reply To: Remote Desktop broken with XP SP2

      by glyall · about 17 years, 4 months ago

      In reply to Remote Desktop broken with XP SP2

      XP Home PCs play together
      XP Pro PCs play together
      XP Home PCs and XP Pro PCs do not play together.

      This is the way Microsoft made them.

      Good Luck

    • January 5, 2005 at 6:29 am #3299021

      Reply To: Remote Desktop broken with XP SP2

      by yornthadude · about 17 years, 4 months ago

      In reply to Remote Desktop broken with XP SP2

      faulty information, there is no suck criterium..

    • January 5, 2005 at 10:51 am #3313871

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      by p.j.hutchison · about 17 years, 4 months ago

      In reply to Remote Desktop broken with XP SP2

      XP Home does not have the Remote Desktop feature although you can install RdP client on XP Home.

      For RDP to work via a Firewall you must have Port 3389 for access to Remote Desktop on the target ie Desktop PC!

    • January 6, 2005 at 7:14 am #3317031

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      by chropue · about 17 years, 4 months ago

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      Sounds like a VPN issue. Try re-installing the VPN service on that laptop with the problem. I would also conseder upgading it to Win XP Pro to alleviate any limitations that may be placed by the XP home edition.

      Ed

    • January 6, 2005 at 1:31 pm #3294406

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      by grbeckmeyer · about 17 years, 4 months ago

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      No, you don’t need to upgrade the laptop to Pro. Remote desktop client runs fine on just about any Windows, even 95. The fact that it works in the office is proof. You need to provide more details on the remote connection for the Toshiba. Is it DSL/cable/dial-up? Is he using a router/firewall, and what model if so. If possible, take the Toshiba to the remote office and see if it works from there. I’m betting it will, and that would be further proof the problem is in this users remote network, not the laptop.

    • February 2, 2005 at 3:52 am #3341794

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      by baillies.projecten · about 17 years, 3 months ago

      In reply to Remote Desktop broken with XP SP2

      I have also just got a new laptop with Xp Home SP2 and as we all know it has no RDC.
      How ever since I installed IIS on my acer if have remote desktop

      After you install IIS you wont find in in the system properties under remote you will find it in your start>>programs>>accessories>>communications.

      I have found this link on how you can install IIS on your Win XP Home http://www.webthang.co.uk/tuts/tuts_server/iis_xph/pippo_xp.asp

      I hope this helps

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