Long-time Remote desktop user -- web connection and standard client. I
typically log into my main PC from 2-3 different computers / day and have
done so for years. Truly my favorite XP feature (VNC eat your heart out).

Until today. Applied the latest patches and now my main PC (server in this
schema) is freezing, requiring a hard reboot. PC won't respond even at the
console. These freezes have been on my local LAN; not over the Internet.

I can connect for a while, but then the connection just terminates.

I'm not using any UPS software (saw that elsewhere). Just NAV and Windows
firewall, both set up to keep 3389 open. 3389 isn't accessible from the
outside net.

Should I try removing a particular patch to see if that stops the problem?

Thanks!

I'm fully up-to-date on my machine (and I agree with you on RDP being XP's
best feature...they just need to sort out some window focus issues in full
screen mode), but haven't had the problem you've described. I had an issue
like that ages ago, but it wound up being due to some port forwarding I was
doing via the XP firewall.

"Keith Patrick" wrote:

> I'm fully up-to-date on my machine (and I agree with you on RDP being XP's
> best feature...they just need to sort out some window focus issues in full
> screen mode), but haven't had the problem you've described. I had an issue
> like that ages ago, but it wound up being due to some port forwarding I was
> doing via the XP firewall.
>
>

Keith -- thanks, after hearing that I've done some more testing, and it
looks like the machine is just hanging on its own, regardless of RD (e.g.,
let PC run and it hangs at console with no connection attempts). Time to
pick it apart and test some more.

TC