print server blocks Remote Desktop Connection

[mejohnjr]

I use Remote Desktop connection regularly between my home computer and my laptop at work. I have linksys cable modem with a linksys router. I have setup the port settings with the router to get past the firewall and also configured my software firewalls. Connection has been good until I installed a print server to my system. Now my Remote Desktop connection no longer works. Any ideas?

[ffreeloader]

That's not a whole lot to go on but there's a couple of places to start looking below.

Is your router your print server? It could be some type of port conflict on your router. It shouldn't be as rdp uses 3389 and I don't know of any print servers that use that port, but it's possible that the print server is using the port on the router that rdp uses dynamically to respond to rdp requests.

You also might check and see if there was any reconfiguration done on the company firewall at work that just happened to coincide with you setting up your print server and that is what is blocking the rdp protocol.

[glc]

I'm assuming you use your laptop at work to remote into your home desktop. Is your home workstation assigned a static local IP? If not, the installation of the print server may have triggered the DHCP to assign a different IP.