Cannot connect to vista remote desktop from XP -- How do I allow access to the port?

[Rh0314]

Hello,

I am on a corporate domain running windows vista. There is apparently a group policy that is preventing me from starting the windows firewall service. That's fine since I don't want to use it anyways. Before joining the machine to the domain, I enabled Remote Desktop. Now, even though remote desktop is enabled, I cannot connect to the vista machine from my XP machine. I tried to telnet from the xp machine to the vista machine on port 3389 and it failed. So my suspicion is that I need to open up this port on the vista machine somehow. What I don't understand is what's blocking the port? The firewall is disabled (service is not running) and I haven't installed any other firewall software. Also, both machines are on the same subnet and remote desktop connections are possible on other machines over the LAN, so I don't believe it's anything that needs to be changed on a router.

Anybody have any suggestions? This is starting to drive me insane! (I'm a software developer, not a system or network administrator, so this is really a weak spot in my knowledge.)

 

[Airbot]

Re: Cannot connect to vista remote desktop from XP -- How do I allow access to the po

DO you have network discovery and file sharing and or private network enabled in the network and sharing center? Just a small suggestion

 

[Rh0314]

Re: Cannot connect to vista remote desktop from XP -- How do I allow access to the po

Thanks for the suggestions. File sharing was turned on. Network discovery was set to a "custom" setting, I've since set it to "on." Same results. I've also discovered that the vista machine is not even pingable. Something is blocking ports on that machine and I cannot figure out what.

 

[Rh0314]

Re: Cannot connect to vista remote desktop from XP -- How do I allow access to the po

I've solved this -- sort of.

I was reading through this technet forum: Base Filtering Engine Service Broken - TechNet Forums. It led me to try disabling the Base Filtering Engine service and its dependencies, which worked. Now I only wonder what downstream repercussions this will have...? I'm sure some network administrator will be at my desk screaming any minute now

 

[Airbot]

Re: Cannot connect to vista remote desktop from XP -- How do I allow access to the po

Yeah, lol, you can look in services to see the dependencies on this service. Just double click on Base filtering. control panel-administrative tools-services. Also maybe take a look at Local security policy and advanced windows firewall settings. It's always good to take a look around!