Vista - Remote Desktop and Vista Firewall

Hi Guys,

Good night to every one around here, i am new member in your exciting side and also new with windows vista (just one week and so far so good).

I have a question relate with remote desktop setup and vista firewall, i'm a cisco guy and i have DSL with a cisco router, in my router i'm running firewall, NAT, DHCP and all that stuff, I already change the default port, allow access through access list and Natted to my public address so i have access from the outside to my vista internal host. i'm setting up remote desktop and windows vista is asking me to enable the firewall which i had desable (got one running in my cisco router), my question is, do i have to run the windows firewall to be able to use remote desktop?, if not how can i do it?.

I almost forgot, i'm running Vista Ultimate 32-Bit.

I'll appreciate all your help and Thanks in advance.

Here's the error:

Hi Guys,

Doing some googling i found the solution, Vista need the firewall service to be started and running to enable remote desktop so, i enabled it but keep the firewall options off and viola, i got remote desktop running, tomorrow i'll try to connect from my remote laptop and see if is working.

Thanks anyway guys.

As long as you have the remote desktop option selected in computer properties, windows firewall should be a mute point, at least it is for me. If you don't want to use windows firewall, just make sure port 3389 in forwarded to your computer.