For several years now I have been accessing my main computer (MAIN, XP Pro SP3) from my kids' computer (KIDS, XP MCE 2002 SP3) using RDP. I do it so much I almost never sit in front of MAIN any more, and it's been working perfectly. Both machines were running NIS 2009, and yesterday I upgraded them both to NIS 2010, for each installation first running the Norton Removal Tool to get rid of 2009.
Now when I click the RDP shortcut, instead of MAIN's desktop being displayed on KIDS, what happens is this:
1. On KIDS, a screen flashes past so quickly I can't be sure what it is, but it might be a MAIN logon screen.
2. On KIDS, the screen goes blank and will remain that way until I kill the RDP process. KIDS remain unaffected otherwise.
3. On MAIN, when I visit it, a blank screen is displayed, the monitor power light is yellow, indicating that it's in standby mode, and the computer is unresponsive to any input (mouse and keyboard actions, CTRL-ALT-DEL). I have to manually turn off the computer by holding in the power button and then turn it on again.
There is no doubt that the sudden failure of my RDP sessions is connected in some why to installing NIS 2010. I have given each machine full trust to each other, so I don't think the problem is firewall or network security related.
Any ideas, anyone?
TGT