You guys/girls have been such a huge help for me when it has come to my Access questions so I thought I would try this forum out to see if you all could help me one more time.

I have recently put together a new computer and everything is working great except for one thing. RDP will not connect through my works VPN connection.

I plugged my good old laptop in to the same router and it has no problems happily connecting.

The message I get on the new machine is "the connection the remote computer was broken" etc.

I have checked all of my network settings and they appear to be identical to the laptops.

I am using XP Pro with SP2. I have tried turning the firewall and virus protection off which BTW they are both on with the laptop and no problems. I have ensured the Exceptions have been allowed so when it is on life should be good.

I have even lowered the MTU on the router from 1500 to 1400 thinking that was it. But when I go to command line and check it returns the packets no problem.

So I am at a loss here. I can VPN in just fine and able to connect to the server and see what I need there but I really need access to my work computer from home and I hate dragging the old laptop out to do it.

Any help would be great or even new ideas to pursue.

Thanks.

OK it obviously something to do with the new machine and I would suspect a Windows update has messed something up :rolleyes:

I'd check every setting to ensure they are same for both machines, including services (start > run and type services.msc).

I did find this (http://www.experts-exchange.com/Networking/Q_21618230.html) its very long so scroll all the way to the bottom and you find that this (http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;299357) was the problem, worth a shot.

Oh btw this does really belongs in Windows forum ;)

It was happily moved to Windows, oops.

So I tried that little trick to no avail. I am about to scream something that the kids shouldn't hear but this problem is driving me nuts.

My computer works perfectly except for this one problem that I cannot seem to solve.

So the search continues, should any of you stumble across this similar problem feel free to clue me in if I haven't already shot my computer and cried over my spilled milk.

Bye for now cruel RDP world.