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RDDearing · 11-03-2008, 20:26

Looking through the responses the only two points left uncertain are the firewall and the router. Do you have other port-forward rules set up on the router and if so, do they work? This would rule that out.

As for the firewall, I know a few firewalls make generous allowances on the subnet the client is on (in your case 192.168.1.x) but for any other client you may need to add a rule that allows port 3389 (or if listed, RDP) for any client obviously remembering that this means anyone can theoretically connect to you via RDP if they know the password. (Sorry, bad case of covering my back!)

11-03-2008, 20:26	#5
RDDearing Inactive Join Date: Apr 2005 Age: 46 Posts: 125	Re: RDP connection not working Looking through the responses the only two points left uncertain are the firewall and the router. Do you have other port-forward rules set up on the router and if so, do they work? This would rule that out. As for the firewall, I know a few firewalls make generous allowances on the subnet the client is on (in your case 192.168.1.x) but for any other client you may need to add a rule that allows port 3389 (or if listed, RDP) for any client obviously remembering that this means anyone can theoretically connect to you via RDP if they know the password. (Sorry, bad case of covering my back!)