Vista Home Premium can't connect by remote desktop to XP Media Cen

[ebyars]

I have been unable to connect from my Vista Home Premium laptop to my XP
Media Center computer using remote desktop without disabling the firewall. I
can connect to it using other XP machines but not with Vista. I am using a
nonstandard port and have opened it in the firewall on the vista machine. Can
anyone tell me how to allow this with the firewall on? I can stop the
firewall and make the connection, the restart the firewall and everything
works.

 

[ebyars]

Yes its the Windows Firewall. There is no router involved. The machines are

 

[ebyars]

I have opened the port in Windows Firewall. This did not solve the problem. I
am not sure what you mean by associate it with RDP. I have no RDP or Remote
Desktop option in the firewall setup. To clarify, my problem is with the
Vista Firewall. It will not allow RDP through on my nonstandard port. I have
not tried port 3389, because I need the nonstandard port to be able to
connect through my Universities firewall. It works fine using an XP box from
there, so my router setup is OK. I just can't connect from Vista on the local
(private) subnet.

 

[ebyars]

My Vista Home Premium does not list Remote Desktop on the exceptions tab of
the Firewall.

 

[ebyars]

This is true and I understand that. But the question is why can I not to XP
from vista without disabling the Windows Firewall?

Is this a known issue? Am I doing something dumb? If so I would love to be
educated.

Thanks for trying to help anyway!