XP Firewall turned itself on, preventing RDP connections!

[Fred Finisterre]

Just back from a week away. The first day I was away I could connect to my
machine via RDP. A few days later I couldn't. When I came home I noticed
that the XP firewall had turned itself on (I usually rely on my hardware
firewall only).

Anyone know why this would have happened?

Cheers,

Fred.

 

[Kerry Brown]

Just back from a week away. The first day I was away I could connect
to my machine via RDP. A few days later I couldn't. When I came home
I noticed that the XP firewall had turned itself on (I usually rely
on my hardware firewall only).

Anyone know why this would have happened?

Cheers,

Fred.

Possibly a Windows Update? Check the event logs to see if anything was
installed and the computer rebooted.

Kerry

 

[Vagabond Software]

Just back from a week away. The first day I was away I could connect to my
machine via RDP. A few days later I couldn't. When I came home I noticed
that the XP firewall had turned itself on (I usually rely on my hardware
firewall only).

Anyone know why this would have happened?

Cheers,

Fred.

If you've configured your computer to accept remote connections. Windows
should have already configured an exception in the software firewall. Of
course, you can check this by selecting the firewall from the Security
Center and looking under the Exceptions tab. Remote Desktop should be
listed there with a check next to it.

If it does exist, than either your hardware firewall is blocking the
connection or your WAN IP address has changed.

carl

 

[Steve N.]

Just back from a week away. The first day I was away I could connect to my
machine via RDP. A few days later I couldn't. When I came home I noticed
that the XP firewall had turned itself on (I usually rely on my hardware
firewall only).

Anyone know why this would have happened?

Cheers,

Fred.

In addition to the other replies, I have seen some asw apps such as
Spybot S&D reset firewall settings if you've done a search for problems
and just accepted the fix all blindly.

Steve N.