I don't recommend disabling windows firewall even you have other firewall
running. However, if you do want to do it, you may try to enable the windows
firewall first and enable RDP. Then disable the firewall
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"Lanwarrior" <Lanwarrior@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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Quote:
> Vista Business, Ultimate, and Enteprise allows Remote Desktop (RDP)
> Host such that another PC can connect to it remotely.
>
> However, when I try to enable RDP Host in Vista Ultimate, an error pop up
> saying that:
>
> "Windows can NOT enable or disable Remote Desktop without
> Windows
> Firewall..."
>
> I do NOT want to use Windows Firewall as I have other Firewall
> program, but how do I enable Remote Desktop for Vista Ultimate without
> Windows Firewall?
>
> This is also an issue in an enterprise environment as my company uses
> other
> firewall solution and our tech. support can NOT remote desktop to the user
> machine. Is Microsoft forcing user to use their own Firewall product and
> not
> 3rd party one?