Re: Remote desktop wont connect

[CRPence <CRPbottle@xxxxxxxxx>]

  FWiW: I had the same symptom after a weekly patch was installed 
on the target PC; that was on a prior SP however.  That patch 
included a "security update" to some communications, and IIRC the 
patch even mentioned the remote desktop function.  Until that PC was 
rebooted, no other PCs could start a new remote connection, even 
though the target PC was still marked as enabled in "My Computer" 
and had been functional for many months prior as target of multiple 
PC remote desktop requests.  The active remote desktop connection 
that was used to perform the update from IE was also broken, even 
though the Windows Update that was applied was still pending the 
required reboot.

Len Grieco wrote:
> The other day I tried to remote into my work pc from home and it 
> did not work. Both pc's are XP pro sp3. My vpn connection was 
> working fine, I just could not connect, no error message,
> nothing. I figured it was something I was doing wrong.
>
> The next day at work I tried to connect using another pc inside 
> our building and again nothing happened. The Remote Desktop
> Connect box is displayed and the computer name (tried both name &
> ip address) I can press the Connect button all day. I am able to
> ping the pc from inside and outside of our network. I was told
> that all the services that are needed to make this happen are
> running. I am not using the windows firewall.
>
> Any Ideas would be greatly appreciated. For what its worth the pc
>  is about 2 months old.