No longer able to connect to work computer from home using remotedesktop

I have two workstations at home that I use to connect to my computer
at work using remote desktop. One is a Win2000 machine. The other is
a WinXP machine. Both had be able to connect for the last two years
with no problem. Now all of a sudden I have a problem. The only
thing I've done is update them with Microsoft patches when they come
out. My work computer is WinXP.

I use Cisco VPN at home to connect. That connects fine. But when I
try to connect using Remote Desktop, I get that usual error about not
able to connect, the computer may be busy, or there may be a network
problem.

I can connect to our work Win 2003 servers with no problem!

At work, I had someone (next cubicle over) connect to my work station
with no problem. If any has any ideas, I'd appreciate it. I really,
really need to be able to connect to my work computer from home!

Can you telnet port 3389?

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"ssmmdd3935" <stmon99@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:15a5e7a8-d24b-4c66-b4f5-5f8cf5e7d588@2g2000hsn.googlegroups.com...
>I have two workstations at home that I use to connect to my computer
> at work using remote desktop. One is a Win2000 machine. The other is
> a WinXP machine. Both had be able to connect for the last two years
> with no problem. Now all of a sudden I have a problem. The only
> thing I've done is update them with Microsoft patches when they come
> out. My work computer is WinXP.
>
> I use Cisco VPN at home to connect. That connects fine. But when I
> try to connect using Remote Desktop, I get that usual error about not
> able to connect, the computer may be busy, or there may be a network
> problem.
>
> I can connect to our work Win 2003 servers with no problem!
>
> At work, I had someone (next cubicle over) connect to my work station
> with no problem. If any has any ideas, I'd appreciate it. I really,
> really need to be able to connect to my work computer from home!

I am having the same problem only from home i can no longer connect to any
system through remote desktop. I get a connection error when telnetting to
port 3389 as well.

"ssmmdd3935" wrote:

> I have two workstations at home that I use to connect to my computer
> at work using remote desktop. One is a Win2000 machine. The other is
> a WinXP machine. Both had be able to connect for the last two years
> with no problem. Now all of a sudden I have a problem. The only
> thing I've done is update them with Microsoft patches when they come
> out. My work computer is WinXP.
>
> I use Cisco VPN at home to connect. That connects fine. But when I
> try to connect using Remote Desktop, I get that usual error about not
> able to connect, the computer may be busy, or there may be a network
> problem.
>
> I can connect to our work Win 2003 servers with no problem!
>
> At work, I had someone (next cubicle over) connect to my work station
> with no problem. If any has any ideas, I'd appreciate it. I really,
> really need to be able to connect to my work computer from home!
>

Well, I recreated the network connection on my work computer using the
WinXP "Create a New Connection" under network tasks, and now I can
once again connect to it with remote desktop from home. Whew! I'm
not sure what happened before because I really don't recall doing
anything to make it stop working.

On Jun 19, 2:05*pm, "Robert L. \(MS-MVP\)" <findem...@chicagotech.net>
wrote:
> Can you telnet port 3389?
>