I am trying to enable remote desktop on my Windows 7 system.
I am setting up a site to site vpn and I need it to be able to get to my router here from the other site.
For some reason, even though I have turned on RDC, checked all the services in services.msc (some do not allow me to start them) I cannot connect to the system, and the problem is clearly this particular computer.
I turned off the firewall, no difference.
I have forwarded a port through my router and set the RDC port to that port.
I used a remote ping service from here, and it reports that port is closed.
http://ping.eu/port-chk/So to test, I turned on RDC on the default port on my old notebook computer, XP, and on the router I forwarded the default port 3389 to that computer. The port check site says that port is open. I changed the port to test to 3388 and the port is closed. Duh, I didn't forward that one. So the port test works.
The problem is the windows 7 professional system. Something is preventing RDC from working.
Any ideas for steps to isolate this problem?
I did remove KB2984972 which added an additional security setting, but that did not solve this problem.