Thanks heavens Danny Sanders can relax at last! He's been waiting 2-1/4
years for this advice, and has been quite nervous about what to do.
Kidding, of course, but really, if he hasn't found a solution by now on
his own, he probably has switched to a Macintosh.
On 6/20/2011, Tina Johnson posted:
> Hi,
> The two solutions I've used to connect to an RDP session are:
> 1. Right click on 'My Computer' | Properties computer name, make the
> destination computer name and description the same...
> 2. Add the destination computer name to the trusted connections on Vista
> (internet Explorer | Internet options | Security | highlight Trusted sites
> icon | click Sites button | enter the name of the destination computer
> without \\
> good luck!
> Tina
>> On Wednesday, March 04, 2009 1:58 PM Danny Sanders wrote:
>> We have just started adding Windows 2008 servers to our DMZ and it seems
>> Vista can't RDP to them.
>>
>> RDP is enabled on the servers.
>> Connecting to the Win 2k8 servers I get a login prompt that lets me know
>> "something" is comunicating.
>>
>> It is using the "less secure method" but nothing changes whe changing to
>> Network level Authentication.
>>
>> The Win 2k8 servers are in another domain which trusts ours, I have an
>> account in the DMZ domain which I provide to the login promp I get, then it
>> sits there for about 3 to 4 minutes then is says "This computer can not
>> connect to the remote computer. Try again. If the problem continues, contact
>> the owner of the remote computer or your network administrator."
>>
>> I can RDP into any Win 2k3 server in the DMZ domain successfully from my
>> Vista computer.
>>
>> Running RDP in administrator mode allowed me to RDP to the Win 2k8 server
>> exactly ONCE.
>>
>> Other users on our subnet with Vista can not RDP to the Win 2k8 servers in
>> the DMZ.
>>
>> Other users on our subnet with XP CAN RDP to the Win 2k8 servers.
>>
>> Users with Virtual PC installed on their Vista machine running XP in the
>> virtual PC CAN RDP to the Win 2k8 servers in the DMZ.
>>
>> I can RDP into other Win 2k8 servers that are not in our DMZ from my Vista
>> box.
>>
>> Disabling the firewall on my Vista box and the Win 2k8 servers changes
>> nothing.
>>
>> The Win 2k8 servers are running on VMWare and using Virtual center I can
>> successfully log into each of the two servers and RDP to the other and get
>> successfully logged in.
>>
>> There is a checkpoint firewall that we have to go through to get to the DMZ,
>> it's rule is to allow any IP from the subnet I'm on to connect to the DMZ
>> and that rule is working because I can get to all other servers in the DMZ.
>>
>> I'm not sure what is going on. Any Ideas?
>>
>> TIA
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