Vista - Vista Home Premium can't connect by remote desktop to XP Media Cen

I have been unable to connect from my Vista Home Premium laptop to my XP
Media Center computer using remote desktop without disabling the firewall. I
can connect to it using other XP machines but not with Vista. I am using a
nonstandard port and have opened it in the firewall on the vista machine. Can
anyone tell me how to allow this with the firewall on? I can stop the
firewall and make the connection, the restart the firewall and everything
works.

"ebyars" <ebyars@xxxxxx> wrote in message
news:615E7372-DC73-4CA7-93FD-17DB303A6458@xxxxxxWhat firewall? Windows firewall?

IMO if you are behind a router (Firewall) turn it off, It will just cause
more problems than good...


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ZÿRiX
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Yes its the Windows Firewall. There is no router involved. The machines are
on the same subnet.

"ZÿRiX" wrote:

ebyars wrote:
|| Yes its the Windows Firewall. There is no router involved. The
|| machines are on the same subnet.
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|| "ZÿRiX" wrote:
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||| "ebyars" <ebyars@xxxxxx> wrote in message
||| news:615E7372-DC73-4CA7-93FD-17DB303A6458@xxxxxx
|||| I have been unable to connect from my Vista Home Premium laptop to
|||| my XP Media Center computer using remote desktop without disabling
|||| the firewall. I
|||| can connect to it using other XP machines but not with Vista. I am
|||| using a nonstandard port and have opened it in the firewall on the
|||| vista machine. Can
|||| anyone tell me how to allow this with the firewall on? I can stop
|||| the firewall and make the connection, the restart the firewall and
|||| everything works.
|||
||| What firewall? Windows firewall?
|||
||| IMO if you are behind a router (Firewall) turn it off, It will just
||| cause more problems than good...
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||| ZÿRiX
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So you are on a private network without internet and using static ip's?
or on a public internet with multiable public ip's?

If it is public get your self a router and disable the firewall or make sure
the ports are open (ping the ip using the port)

If it is private why use the firewall? but if you want it, as stated above
make sure the ports are open and associated with RDP...

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ZÿRiX
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I have opened the port in Windows Firewall. This did not solve the problem. I
am not sure what you mean by associate it with RDP. I have no RDP or Remote
Desktop option in the firewall setup. To clarify, my problem is with the
Vista Firewall. It will not allow RDP through on my nonstandard port. I have
not tried port 3389, because I need the nonstandard port to be able to
connect through my Universities firewall. It works fine using an XP box from
there, so my router setup is OK. I just can't connect from Vista on the local
(private) subnet.

"ZÿRiX" wrote:

In the exceptions tab you have Remote Desktop... And vista firewall does
control out going traffic as well...

Try this...
http://www.vistahunt.com/windows-vis...-firewall.html

Or do a little reverse engineering from this site...
http://forums.microsoft.com/TechNet/...3738&SiteID=17



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