Recently, I have been having trouble connecting to my main office computer (Destination computer) using remote desktop connection (RDC) from my Toshiba laptop. It worked great for about a month, then suddenly stopped functioning. The laptop is running Windows 7 Home Premium, 64 bit. The destination computer is running Windows 7 Professional 64bit. I ran the "netstat -a" in the cmd to check if the port was listening, and it was (I set up a different port other than the default for added security). I had RDC set up to connect to the office computer by using my routers public IP and the port number. It worked for a while, then one day wouldn't connect. I have tried disabling all anti virus (Norton on the home computer, MSE on the Laptop), a system restore on the laptop to a time when RDC functioned, resetting the router and modem, and triple checked all the basic settings, all to no avail. Any feedback on this would be greatly appreciated. Thank you for your time

Are you able to RDP to itself? Try to do RDP to localhost and share the result. Also try connecting from the other side. Also make sure that the port 3389 is not blocked. You can use TELNET for this. Also try to see if you can connect to shares or not.

You can make rdp connections from Windows 7 Home Premium but not connect to it. They seem to have taken that out from Windows with one of the updates. If you go to System Properties "remote settings" tab you will see that the place where "remote desktop" properties used to be is empty now. I have same issue on one of my computers at home. http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows7/products/compare Remote Desktop Connection not supported

I can connect to a homegroup, if that is what you mean by shares, and the port I am using is listening and is not blocked. Also, I cannot connect from another laptop running the same setup to the destination computer either.

Yes Brano, I do see where the option used to be on home premium. I am trying to connect to a windows professional computer from a home premium so it should work. Its a shame they took that out.