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Old November 15th, 2011, 04:32 PM
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Remote Desktop connection not working...(Moved from W7)

Hi all. I connect to my home PC (running Windows 7 Professional) from work all the time. In the last few weeks, it's stopped working -- I get the "Remote Desktop can't connect to the remote computer for one of these reasons..." message.

The only firewall I'm running is Windows Firewall, and I've enabled all Remote applications to be allowed through the firewall.

I've triple-checked my IP address by going to whatismyip.com, my usual method.

I also use LogMeIn, and I can log into the computer and change settings and stuff from work right now, so I know the computer's on and not hibernating, it's connected to the Internet, and there are no memory issues.

I'm at a loss. LogMeIn's rendering is very slow compared to Remote Desktop so I definitely need this functionality. What am I missing?

Thanks for all your help!
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Old November 17th, 2011, 05:22 AM
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Hi abbyqueue. Does your work computer also run Windows 7 Professional?
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Old November 17th, 2011, 04:51 PM
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Not sure -- I connect from several different computers to my home computer. They all run some version of Windows 7. It worked fine up until a few weeks ago.
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Old November 18th, 2011, 01:38 AM
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Have you worked your way through all the suggestions here?
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Old November 18th, 2011, 09:47 PM
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Yes, I have.
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Old November 18th, 2011, 10:07 PM
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Ok. In that case, I am transferring your topic to the Networking Forum for more assistance. The issue may be more complex than what we normally deal with here.
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Old November 18th, 2011, 10:08 PM
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I posted it in the Networking forum first... I got no replies there, and was referred here instead.
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Old November 18th, 2011, 10:11 PM
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Your problem may have been overlooked abbyqueue. If the issue is not software related and it would appear that it's not, the next item to look at at is your network or router and I dont have the expertise to help you with this.
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Old November 22nd, 2011, 08:59 PM
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Hi abbyqueue.

Do you know if any changes have been made to your network or your work's networK?
Can you remote desktop into you machine from another machine on your network?
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Old November 26th, 2011, 01:43 AM
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No changes have been made to my knowledge. I can't remote into my machine from ANY other computer, at work or otherwise, which of course makes me think that it's my computer's issue, not a network one.
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Old November 27th, 2011, 03:40 AM
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OK let's by taking a quick peek under the covers to see that RD is up and listening on your computer.


Open a command window [start menu->run->cmd]
in the window that comes up enter netstat -an
This will produce a list of of network ports in use on your system. You want to look for something like:

TCP 192.168.1.100:3389 0.0.0.0:0 LISTENING

Instead of "192.168.1.100", it will show your machine's IP address, but the rest should be the same. This will show us if your computer is 'LISTENING' for incoming RD connections. [port 3389 is the port used for RD]
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Old November 27th, 2011, 07:20 PM
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Okay, I got:

TCP 0.0.0.0:3389 0.0.0.0:0 LISTENING
TCP [::]:3389 [::]:0 LISTENING

Those are the only two listed with 3389 in them.
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Old August 25th, 2012, 04:52 PM
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...is anyone still around for this topic? I never heard a reply and then it started working again randomly so I didn't post back. Here we are again now, not working for some months at this point, so I ran the netstat -an command again and got the same results as before.
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Old January 15th, 2013, 12:39 PM
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You can try deploying on premise remote support appliance such as RHUB or Bomgar appliances in order to remotely access your home computer from work. It is easy to use, provides good speed and is only one time cost as compared to hosted services
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