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More info?)
Interesting. This shouldn't happen for most folks. I've installed SP2 on a
number of machines--a dozen or so, via Remote Desktop and haven't seen this
issue. These machines in the main had the SP1 firewall in place with RD
opened.
"Steven" <landsteven@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:74497317.0408260606.1d9476bf@posting.google.com...
> Are you sure you have Remote Desktop enabled? It turns out that this
> was simply due to an ID10T error on my end. When XP SP2 installs it
> disables the Remote Desktop setting in My Computer > Remote tab.
>
> I know I had RDP enabled and working before the install... so then I
> after installed I assumed that that was still the case and that I was
> having a Windows Firewall issue. I was wrong. Once I enabled Remote
> Desktop again, everything works fine!
>
> <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:<ab7201c4889d$84ae1260$a501280a@phx.gbl>...
>> I'm using an ATI video card, and got no nVidia gfx
>> drivers on the system anywhere.
>>
>> Nick
>>
>> >-----Original Message-----
>> >Hmm - not Nvidia video driver service? Do I recall that
>> service causing
>> >this error message? Perhaps the video driver rev
>> changed with SP2?
>> >
>> >"Tom" <Use_Reply_To_Address@qxqx.net> wrote in message
>> >news:Xns954A620D7A13Atomcog@207.46.248.16...
>> >> "Jeffrey Randow (MVP)" <jeffreyr-
>> support@remotenetworktechnology.com>
>> >> wrote
>> >> in news:ki58i0h4aac5ju1jfnfed4g66v1cc7movm@4ax.com:
>> >>
>> >>> I'll send this to the TS team at MS to see if they
>> are seeing tech
>> >>> support incidents on this, but I haven't been able to
>> reproduce this
>> >>> on ten machines I have tried...
>> >>>
>> >>> Getting this solved will involve someone who has this
>> issue to open up
>> >>> a support incident with either MS or your OEM.
>> However, this may cost
>> >>> $$$...
>> >>>
>> >>> Jeffrey Randow (Windows Networking & Smart Display
>> MVP)
>> >>> jeffreyr-support@remotenetworktechnology.com
>> >>>
>> >>> Please post all responses to the newsgroups for the
>> benefit
>> >>> of all USENET users. Messages sent via email may or
>> may not
>> >>> be answered depending on time availability....
>> >>>
>> >>> Remote Networking Technology Support Site -
>> >>>
http://www.remotenetworktechnology.com
>> >>> Windows XP Expert Zone -
>>
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone
>> >>
>> >> Yeah, I would have started a support incident long
>> ago, but believe it or
>> >> not, even though we pay close to 10K a year for
>> our "campus agreement"
>> >> (just for our one college on campus, since not college
>> & deptartment
>> >> wanted
>> >> to pitch in), that yearly license doesn't include any
>> free support.
>> >>
>> >> Anyway, I've been too busy to post any more info, but
>> I've tried even more
>> >> things, going back and forth from a pre-SP2 system
>> restore point,
>> >> uninstalling this, changing that, installing SP2, but
>> nothing at all has
>> >> worked yet. I've now ruled out ATI video drivers, as
>> well.
>> >>
>> >> Also, it is hard, even for me, to discount Windows
>> Firwall, despite the
>> >> fact I do have the 3389 exception set and I can verify
>> it with the netsh
>> >> firewall commands. I even enabled logging on the
>> firewall and you can see
>> >> my client computer connecting and then it immediately
>> (same second) drops,
>> >> which is exactly what I'm seeing on the various
>> clients I try to connect.
>> >> Again, this error is a big mystery, because there is
>> zero documentation I
>> >> can find about what the root cause would be:
>> >> "The remote computer has ended the connection."
>> >>
>> >> Now, Nick, who started this thread, says he can get it
>> in with Safe Mode
>> >> With Networking, but in normal mode he doesn't get any
>> firewall log
>> >> entries. It doesn't necessarily sound like we are
>> experiencing the same
>> >> problem, as he says his times out. My problem (and at
>> least three others
>> >> in the various newsgroups or have e-mailed me from my
>> newsgroup postings,
>> >> have said they are having a similar problem) is the
>> fact I'm connecting
>> >> literally for a split second and then being dropped,
>> which my firewall log
>> >> confirms.
>> >>
>> >> It might be strange, it might be obscure, it is likely
>> something a handful
>> >> of us are just doing - and note, I have a few other
>> SP2-updated systems
>> >> that do *not* have this problem, and no one else on
>> campus has reported a
>> >> problem, so I know there has to be some very specific
>> circumstances behind
>> >> it. Nonetheless, since SP2 still hasn't been widely
>> deployed at all, I
>> >> fully expect the number of incidents of this 'SP2
>> kills Remote Desktop'
>> >> problem to grow exponentially as thousands of XP Pro
>> users install SP2
>> >> over
>> >> the coming weeks and months.
>> >>
>> >> - Tom
>> >
>> >
>> >.
>> >
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