Today, I am trying to connect to Vista Ultimate Remote Desktop (RD) from VPC Windows Server 2003, then the connection was refused with unknown reasons. There is no problem of connecting to Server 2003 from Vista, which has been tested. The Remote Desktop option has been turned on for Vista. After googling the cause, I found the default port of RD is 3389. Then I use "netstat -a" on server 2003 which displayed that port is being listened, while it isn't on Vista. So the cause has been found: the Terminal Service is disabled!
After checking the services, as expected, two terminal services related both stopped. afterwards, anyone knows what to do...
In conclusion, turn on the RD option will not start the terminal services automatically, presuming they are disabled and don't start by default. Thus, there are three things to check:
1. PING (of course)
2. Allow Remote Desktop in Remote Settings which can be found on the left-up cornor of computer properties
3. Start Terminal Services if you haven't.
Bingo! You can see beautiful Vista desktop popping on your tedious desktop now!
Thursday, August 23, 2007
Wednesday, August 22, 2007
Vista and Office 2007
Recently I met a strange problem of Word 2007 installed on the Vista ultimate. It suddenly cannot open files if the Word is not open already. The error message is like it cannot find the path"..\....\*.doc(x)" and make sure the file name is correct.
Now the problem has been fixed without knowing the root cause after I modified the system environmental variable TEMP to the same one as in the user variable (mine are different in the first place) , and then modified it back to "%systemroot%\TEMP". I am still not 100% sure this is the cause. However, a very possible cause I figure would be that you open the file too soon before the Vista finished "cache" the thumbnail of each folder visualized as the green bar process on the top of the window explorer.
A Vista with powerful CPU might not suffer such "error" since the green bar goes much faster. Nevertheless, if it still happens, try to remove any add-ons.
In conclusion, try three ways:
1. Check environmental variables
2. Open the file later
3. Remove any add-ons
Wow..the problem is gone. Wish you as good luck as me!
Now the problem has been fixed without knowing the root cause after I modified the system environmental variable TEMP to the same one as in the user variable (mine are different in the first place) , and then modified it back to "%systemroot%\TEMP". I am still not 100% sure this is the cause. However, a very possible cause I figure would be that you open the file too soon before the Vista finished "cache" the thumbnail of each folder visualized as the green bar process on the top of the window explorer.
A Vista with powerful CPU might not suffer such "error" since the green bar goes much faster. Nevertheless, if it still happens, try to remove any add-ons.
In conclusion, try three ways:
1. Check environmental variables
2. Open the file later
3. Remove any add-ons
Wow..the problem is gone. Wish you as good luck as me!
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