Post SP1, RDC problem

Hi,

Sucsessfully update our home server to 2003 SP1 (already 2003) and
everything seems fine.

However, I'm now having problems connecting to the server using RDC
from an XP Pro SP2 machine.

If I connect to the machine as soon as it has booted, the RDC works
fine and I can manage the server, run programs, etc. If I wait 5 mins,
then I get the error "Remote Computer Ended the Connection"

I haved checked the new firewall in 2003 and it's off.
If I disable Remote Connection in the system control panel, I get the
message "Could not establish connection to the remote computer" which
is what I would expect.

I've looked long and hard on technet and cannot find any mention of
this error.

Can someone help please?

Check the timeout for the RDC it may be reduced

"Stuart" wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Sucsessfully update our home server to 2003 SP1 (already 2003) and
> everything seems fine.
>
> However, I'm now having problems connecting to the server using RDC
> from an XP Pro SP2 machine.
>
> If I connect to the machine as soon as it has booted, the RDC works
> fine and I can manage the server, run programs, etc. If I wait 5 mins,
> then I get the error "Remote Computer Ended the Connection"
>
> I haved checked the new firewall in 2003 and it's off.
> If I disable Remote Connection in the system control panel, I get the
> message "Could not establish connection to the remote computer" which
> is what I would expect.
>
> I've looked long and hard on technet and cannot find any mention of
> this error.
>
> Can someone help please?
>

I've checked the configuration of the RDP and the timeouts are all
default. I tried switching them to "never" and still get the "Remote
Computer Ended the Connection" message after a few minutes.