I have been using RDP to connect from a Win7 system to another computer for years. Now that computer is on Win10 fast track. The connection worked fine as recently as yesterday. This morning I find that computer has rebooted after installing 10162, and RDP can't connect. When I try, I see "Initiating remote connection" for 10 seconds or so, then it shows me "Remote Desktop can't connect..." error. I tried to reboot the Win10 machine, no difference. I did not see messages in the event log relating to the RDP, but I am not sure what to look for. I see that the Remote Desktop Services are running. I confirmed that the Remote Desktop is enabled in Settings, and my user name is listed. The Win7 client still connects to another Win7 machine on the network. I had recently installed KB2592687 ("RDP 8.0 update") on the client machine, and following that installation it successfully connected to the Win10 machine with the previous build.
Control Panel > Security > "Windows Firewall" > "Allow Programs or feature through Windows Firewall" option Check Firewall settings for Remote Desktops, enable for all scopes and try again.. upgrading sometimes reset the firewall settings. You can also check the RD client applet (from windows 7), Advanced tab and check under Server authentication: "Connect and dont warn me"
It should work by default. I'm running a secure app with RDC man and have more than 60 connections working.
Solved! Somehow during the update my network connection type got changed to Public, which disabled RDP. I changed it to Private and now RDP works. Following a web suggestion (can't post link with too few postings), I used the Network Troubleshooter to change the connection type. Is there a more direct way to make this change?
there should be a microsoft fix it tool for this. this is a common problem which also disables file sharing.