Remote Desktop - Cannot Connect To The Remote Computer

[timrye]

Hi, I've got an issue with remote desktop. RDP had been working fine on this
server until a reboot last week. Now I can't RDP onto the server from any
client and get 'This computer cannot connect to the remote computer' each
time I try and connect. Nothing has changed on the machine. The
applications are working fine on the server and I can access the machine from
the local console, it would just appear to be RDP that isn't working.

I saw somewhere that RDP uses port 3389? If so, doing a netstat -an shows
no port 3389 running, could this be related and what needs doing to correct
this?

Thanks, Tim.

 

[techstress]

First thing I'd check would be to see if the machine is set to accept
Remote Desktop requests. I think this is in System properties.


On Oct 12, 4:50 am, timrye wrote:
> Hi, I've got an issue with remote desktop.  RDP had been working fine on this
> server until a reboot last week.  Now I can't RDP onto the server from any
> client and get 'This computer cannot connect to the remote computer' each
> time I try and connect.  Nothing has changed on the machine.  The
> applications are working fine on the server and I can access the machine from
> the local console, it would just appear to be RDP that isn't working.
>
> I saw somewhere that RDP uses port 3389?  If so, doing a netstat -an shows
> no port 3389 running, could this be related and what needs doing to correct
> this?
>
> Thanks, Tim.