I cannot use the Remote Desktop service on my Windows 7 Professional machine. When I noticed the issue I initially thought the problem was in my router, but I have double-checked the port-forwarding settings and they are correct. I have also plugged the machine into the modem directly.

Port 3389 Not listening remote desktop connection. More about port 3389 listening remote desktop connection. To find many threads on 'Port 3389 NOT LISTENING. How To Change Remote Desktop Listening Port. Click the Vista Orb. To a Windows Remote Desktop service that is not listening on the default TCP 3389 port number? Hi, By default, Remote Desktop uses port 3389 as the listening port for any incoming Remote Desktop connections. You can change the port to prevent any attacks. Can't login via rdp and netstat doesn't list the port 3389. Remote users cannot login via rdp and netstat doesn't list the. Server to stop listening.

Doing both those steps I was still unable to connect from outside the LAN. I attempted to connect to the Windows 7 machine from a Windows Vista machine inside the LAN, and was unable to connect. At this point I double-checked that the Remote Desktop option was checked, and that the Terminal Service was running. Sd Life Monitor Tool. When I ran netstat -na, port 3389 is not listening.

Windows Firewall is disabled for Public and Private networks and I have no third-party firewall or anti-virus that would be blocking that port (I use ESET NOD plain AV, no firewall). Based on reading several threads about the problem, I have tried enabling Windows Firewall with Remote Desktop allowed but that did not work. I tried turning off Remote Desktop setting, rebooting, turning Remote Desktop on, rebooting, but that didn't work. I tried restarting the TermService service but that didn't work. I changed the port number in the registry editor, but that didn't work either. I've uploaded a screenshot with all the relevant settings showing here: http://img716.imageshack.us/img716/7779/3389.png.