Remote Desktop XP Pro - Suddenly stopped listening

I've been using Remote desktop to connect to my home machine from work for quite some time. Suddenly the other day I stopped being able to connect. I am running a D-Link DI-524 wireless router at home with my PC through wired and the work laptop through wireless.

I can not connect to my PC from my laptop through the local LAN at home, or from work.

My router is forwarding other requests like port 80 and 21 to my home Web and FTP Servers still.

Running netstat -a on my laptop with remote desktop shows port 3389 listening for connections. On my desktop the netstat -a doesn't change is I either check or uncheck the remote desktop allow/disallow checkbox in control panel->system.

I googled a bit and searched here but haven't found anything relevant. Any ideas on what made remote desktop suddenly stop listening?

 

Lots of possibilities which would include the fact that your IP address may have changed. That's an ISP thing and sometimes changes out of the blue after months of being fixed.

Also, check your port at this site

Then consider this snippet from some other person with the same problem:

HTH

 

I very much doubt that it was the IP address has changed. I also use dyndns.org and have a client running on my desktop machine so I can get around that in case of dropped ISP connections. Also, I can not connect when at home using my internal IP of 192.168.0.100, which my PC is bound by MAC to.

I did try the port scanning tool you posted, my 5 year old was on the desktop but I did it from my laptop since the router here would forward the proper ports to my other machine anyway. As suspectde, it does find my machine on port 21 and 80 as I have apache and WarFTP Daemon running. It however reported that 3389 was not available because connection was refused. I tried 1099 as a control since it should not respond and I get that the connection timed out instead of refused.

When I get the chance I will try the safe mode networking option, currently a torrent is running and as stated my 5 year old is playing her games and I can't bring myself to kick her off just so that I can set it up to kick her off from work later too.

My main concern though was that on my Laptop which is working normally; when I enable remote desktop and run netstat -a I get the 3389 port listening. When I do the same test on my desktop I do not. This said to me that it was my Desktop and not my router configuration or ISP causing the problem. I cannot for the life of me find any reason for it to just not be listening when enabled though.

 

Well, I tried the restart in safe mode with networking. That didn't seem to change much. So I figured I would post my netstat just to prove I'm not crazy:

So, as you can see, no 3389. In my Control panel->System->Remote I do have remote desktop checked and I have two users set up to allow it.

Any more ideas from anyway on why my machine refuses to listen for RD connections?

Traciatim

 

Just a bump to make sure I don't get lost. Still no answers after much googling and asking here. Hopefully someone out there will see my question and actually know what's going on.

 

Yup, still waiting, I guess the complicated questions don't get answers around here.

 

Yeah, that's sad. I don't have XP Pro so I can't replicate and test your problem but I have a suggestion that will definitely speed things along for you.

Post this problem as a new thread into the Networking forum section here. I think they'll get you sorted much faster.

HTH