Remote Desktop Connection dropping immediately
Found a funny one today. I wanted to do the rare task of creating a remote desktop, or terminal services connection with mstsc.exe to my PC from my laptop. Once I typed in my username and password, and accepted the untrusted certificate error, my connection would be dropped instantly.
Not being a frequent user or this functionality there had been a lot that changed since it last worked successfully. Which meant a long hard hunt for the problem. All the usual issues came up on Google such as firewalls and so - but I'm bright enough to figure those out for myself.
I have been playing with my TCP stack recently and IPv6, so I removed all that to see if that helped - alas no.
An inspired search for Avira anti-virus and remote desktop came up trumps. I have only just installed this as a trial as I'm fed up with AV companies charging for multiple machines. The culprit was "Advanced process protection" - which is fairly ambiguous, still disabling it did the trick and my computer is now working again. Just need to restore all my networking work I've done.
From in Avira:
Extra > Configuration > General > Security
Uncheck "Advanced process protection"
Not being a frequent user or this functionality there had been a lot that changed since it last worked successfully. Which meant a long hard hunt for the problem. All the usual issues came up on Google such as firewalls and so - but I'm bright enough to figure those out for myself.
I have been playing with my TCP stack recently and IPv6, so I removed all that to see if that helped - alas no.
An inspired search for Avira anti-virus and remote desktop came up trumps. I have only just installed this as a trial as I'm fed up with AV companies charging for multiple machines. The culprit was "Advanced process protection" - which is fairly ambiguous, still disabling it did the trick and my computer is now working again. Just need to restore all my networking work I've done.
From in Avira:
Extra > Configuration > General > Security
Uncheck "Advanced process protection"