remote desktop connection stopped working

Question

I have 3 XPsp2 Pro systems on my domain with remote desktop connection enabled on each.   Over night the Microsoft random customer goodwill destroyer (aka windows update) updated XP1 & XP2.  Now, XP1 cannot remote connect to XP2 or the reverse.  XP3 can remote connect to XP1 & XP2 and the reverse is also true.  I can ping XP1 from XP2 and the reverse.  I have checked my windows firewall settings and RDC settings - they appear to be as before.    I have tried deleting the rdp files and recreating them.  I get the message: the client could not connect to the remote computer.  It proceeds to suggest that remote connections may not be enabled, the remote computer may be too busy or there are network problems.  Of course, one gets this same message if you type the password incorrectly so the message is a catch-all for poor error collection & reporting.   Anyone with a clue as to what's going on or needs to be done to recover?  I am hesitant to restore to a system point before the update, since the patch will undoubtedly be required sometime.  Any help or ideas will be appreciated.

NemesisDB · Answer

are the user accounts you're connecting on listed as allowed under the RDP rules?    just on the off chance that computer 3 is connecting as a different name than the others.

NemesisDB · Answer

that's just weird (and I did check and all my XP machines work with all updates).  you could try using add/remove programs to rollback the update. it would confirm that that is the problem at anyrate.

marcus_brutus · Answer

Nope. remember I said all XPs worked before the update.  Each XP has the same name & the user is administrator.  I have rechecked the accesses just to ensure nothing had changed.  thanks.

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