Have to Reboot for RDP Every 24 Hours

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Have to Reboot for RDP Every 24 Hours

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Post by TheOsburnFamil » Fri Jun 29, 2018 1:06 pm

Hey gang-- need some help if any of you remember this one...

Approximately every 24 hours, "something" appears to happen to RDP and my extenders no-longer connect; nor can I RDP manually to my mediacenter PC (it's headless with 4 extenders). When I go to the pc/console I can login and everything works. I don't see any errors in Apps/Security/System event logs. I simply can't RDP or connect my extenders. A reboot of the PC mysteriously fixes it for about a day and then I'm back to square one.

Windows 8.1 Pro MediaCenter
Firewall Disabled
No "remote control" / mirror driver software (LogMeIn/TeamViewer/etc...) is installed
Don't use the RDP Hack for multiple concurrent RDP sessions (that aren't extenders)

Any thoughts/help here?

Thanks!
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Post by holidayboy » Fri Jun 29, 2018 4:47 pm

I think I vaguely remember a gpedit setting that was posted around the same time as the TVPack release in 2008?

It could have been on the old .com site though.

Or I could be 100% wrong.

Do you have any 3rd party virus stuff installed?

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Post by holidayboy » Fri Jun 29, 2018 4:56 pm

Are the rdp services still running on the pc when the issue occurs?

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Post by Scallica » Sat Jun 30, 2018 11:36 am

Check the date/time on the system. Check the Windows Event Viewer (App and System log).
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Post by TheOsburnFamil » Sun Jul 08, 2018 12:04 am

Sorry for the delayed response-- week of vacation does that to a guy. :)

...seems to have been my AV software (F-Secure) kept resetting my firewall to block RDP. After re-installing my AV software, the problem went away. Strange but it's held for nearly a week now so I'll take it.
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Post by SomeGuy » Mon Dec 03, 2018 5:34 am

Dumb question (and months later at that), but from some searching around it looked like the Windows firewall must be enabled in order to connect an Extender, though they mention that you can turn it off after the fact. Did you have any success with it disabled during the initial connection?

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