Remote Desktop and Vista Firewall

[elegua]

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:

 

[elegua]

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.

 

[Pbb321]

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.