This should be real simple, but I am pulling out my hair.
2 brand new xp pro machines, fully patched. They came with trial of norton internet security. I uninstalled that, without any apparent problems.
Both are plugged into a switch and have IPs in the same subnet of an SBS 2003 R2 domaim.
I want to remotely control machine 2 from machine 1 - install the same apps on both machines, etc.
There's just the administrator account and it has a password. same name and password on both machines.
I manually turned on remote desktop from computer properties on both machines.
I start remote desktop connection at either end and sometimes it blinks for a split second when click connect or get a message 'this computer can't connect to the remote computer'.
I turned off windows firewall on both machines, no luck
netstat -ano does show 3389 listening
telnet machine 3389 gets a blank screen (no error message).
I saw some pages about editing hklm\system\currentcontrolset\control\terminal server\FdenyTSConnection=1 and set that to zero and reboot. That didn't solve it (although that was for remotely enabling remote desktop. Mine was 1 even after I checked the box to enable remote desktop).
I can ping both machines from each other by name and IP address
I can browse their shared folders with \\machinename
services shows terminal services IS running.
I joined these 2 machines to the Sbs network and still no success when going to \\server\remote and try to connect to the machines.
Only thing I can think of is norton left something in there with their firewall? How to check / how to fix it (although I get a blank screen when telnet machine 3389 so not the firewall?
Where I'd type the machine name to connect, I browse and it says there's no terminal servers.
what else? What am I missing? could it be simpler? Same lan subnet, no router, etc...
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