Cannot RDP to Server Standard 2016
Although 'Server Manager' indicates that Remote Management and Remote Desktop are both 'enabled', I get the standard:
Remote Desktop can't connect to the remote computer for one of these reasons:
1) Remote access to the server is not enabled
2) The remote computer is turned off (nope... it's on)
3) The remote computer is not available on the network (I can see it listed along with the other servers under network)
I can RDP from this workstation to any of the other servers.... just not the new Server Standard 2016. Any suggestions?
Remote Desktop can't connect to the remote computer for one of these reasons:
1) Remote access to the server is not enabled
2) The remote computer is turned off (nope... it's on)
3) The remote computer is not available on the network (I can see it listed along with the other servers under network)
I can RDP from this workstation to any of the other servers.... just not the new Server Standard 2016. Any suggestions?
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Cliff Galiher
Did you enable remote desktop using server manager? If you only did it in computer properties, it doesn't actually do all of the necessary things to open access. The link in server manager (on the local server pane) was put there to address this issue. Disable and re-enable if necessary.
You may need to create a firewall exception. As Cliff mentioned the server manager utility should create that exception automatically.
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McKnife - telnet wasn't a recognized command. New server.... telnet services were not installed. Now completed. Still can't RDP.
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Cliff - Remote Desktop & Remote Management were both enabled by default. I've read that 2016 this should have been defaulted to disabled..... not so on this install. So I went ahead and added two specific users to have access to RDP to this server. That didn't make any difference. Still cannot connect via RDP.
Did you disable and re-enable as I suggested?
Micheline, install the telnet client as suggested before (not at the server, but at the client) and then launch the command (also at the client). Does the screen go black?
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Cliff - yes, I had disabled / enabled.
" now with telnet installed.... all is well" - LOL! Telnet is not to be installed on the server, nor is it anything but to be used for diagnostics in this case.
Good anyway.
Good anyway.
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Ha! Then I'll uninstall it at the server level and see if all still works. Funny eh? Must have just been the computer vs server GPO. I'll post what happens. :)
SBS will push out the firewall exception. May have been that.
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Nothing is ever simple. (smile) The Telnet Services is checkmarked but greyed out so I can't uninstall it. I'll play around and see if I can figure it out.
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Rob - yes, that is what it appears. SBS was pushing the computer workstation GPO to the Server2016 since it was listed in the AD as an SBSComputer and not an SBSServer.