Stephen, Just a quick thought as I go out the door... It may be way off the mark :)
It sounds a bit like a dynamic firewall rule. Once the laptop initiates some kind of connection, it's causing a temporary rule to allow you to connect in. David "If we can hit that bullseye, the rest of the dominoes will fall like a house of cards... checkmate!" -Zapp Brannigan, Futurama On 19 April 2014 12:27, Stephen Price <[email protected]> wrote: > A bit more info. I think I've realised why its happening but not sure how > to fix it. > > I suspect its something up with my router. If I ping my laptop it tells me > "Reply from 192.168.1.163: Destination host unreachable" which is the > computer i'm pinging FROM. If I attempt to connect to that laptop with the > services mmc it fails, but I can then ping the laptop (as well as RDP). > > I'm a bit stumped why an attempted connection fixes the laptop's routing. > Will do some searches now i've narrowed it down a little... I'm suspecting > my firewall (Comodo) somehow. Thats the software you install that stops > everything working. > > Happy Easter all! > > > On Sat, Apr 19, 2014 at 9:53 AM, Stephen Price > <[email protected]>wrote: > >> Hey all, >> >> I'm using RDP to connect to my laptop (and use multiple monitors) and I >> have a strange issue where when I first try to connect it gives me a >> message showing the machine is not available. This happens if I am logged >> out. I've set services that seem appropriate to start automatically but no >> go. The weird part is if I use teamviewer to connect to the laptop, log in, >> then I can successfully RDP in. >> I thought I'd connect and check what services were running remotely using >> the services mmc and it wouldn't let me connect but then my RDP worked. >> Perhaps there's a service I missed but if anyone has come across this >> before, love to hear. >> >> cheers, >> Stephen >> > >
