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FWiW: I had the same symptom after a weekly patch was installed on the target PC; that was on a prior SP however. That patch included a "security update" to some communications, and IIRC the patch even mentioned the remote desktop function. Until that PC was rebooted, no other PCs could start a new remote connection, even though the target PC was still marked as enabled in "My Computer" and had been functional for many months prior as target of multiple PC remote desktop requests. The active remote desktop connection that was used to perform the update from IE was also broken, even though the Windows Update that was applied was still pending the required reboot.

Len Grieco wrote:

The other day I tried to remote into my work pc from home and it did not work. Both pc's are XP pro sp3. My vpn connection was working fine, I just could not connect, no error message,
nothing. I figured it was something I was doing wrong.

The next day at work I tried to connect using another pc inside our building and again nothing happened. The Remote Desktop
Connect box is displayed and the computer name (tried both name &
ip address) I can press the Connect button all day. I am able to
ping the pc from inside and outside of our network. I was told
that all the services that are needed to make this happen are
running. I am not using the windows firewall.

Any Ideas would be greatly appreciated. For what its worth the pc
is about 2 months old.


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