Windows XP RDC to Windows 2000 terminal server?

[Guest]

I have an odd Terminal Server question. We have a small 2 site point to
point PIX VPN. There is a terminal server and a file server in Boston.
(Both are Windows 2000 Server SP 3, NO exchange).

In Roxbury users connect to the Terminal server fine that are running
Windows 2000 workstation through the tunnel. There is one machine that
recently was replaced with a Windows XP box. RDC to the IP address for the
terminal server ends with an error and does not connect on this one machine.
The user does not know if it ever connected since it was replaced, she is not
sure. From that machine you can ping the terminal server and open shares
from the terminal server, just can't rdc to it.

Is there some kind of compatibility issue with Windows XP Pro client going
to an older Windows 2000 server back end terminal server?

Let me know if you have any ideas.

 

[Nathan Thomas Sr]

What error is the user getting?
Even though I have an issue with a remote workstation now, I still use
my laptop and RDC all the time.

 

[Guest]

It is the Windows Firewall. There is a checkbox in firewall settings to
allow remote desktop

 

[Guest]

Why would it be the firewall? It is this machine trying to connect to a
server? It is not someone trying to connect to it? Does the box need to be
checked, even if it is this machine trying to go to a server? I will check
it next time, but it does not make sense to me. I don't even think the
firewall is enabled at ll on the box either but I'm not 100% sure.

 

[Guest]

The firewall closes the RDP port, so you can't do anything with it, you need
to open it so you can do something with it.

 

[Guest]

The W2k machines are getting throught the firewall, so the XP machine should
as well. I am getting an RDC connection from an XP client to a W2k TS
without problems, so I don't think it is compatibility.