W10 Remote Desktop does not connect to VRDE

[SchweizerGarde]

Hi all,
I just tried to connect to a headless VM running W10 1803 32bit as guest on a W10 1803 64bit host. When enabling MS Remote Desktop in guest, mstsc.exe on the host connects w/o problems. RDP on guest was listening on port 3389 TCP and UDP.

Now on guest: I disabled W10 RDP, set VRDE to ON with all default properties including port 3389. mstsc.exe on host could not connect using the same address as with RDP and stopped with the usual message "Remote access to the server is not enabled." A first check shows: On the guest there is no process listening on port 3389. Changing the port number to 5009 gave the same result. Could this be the problem?

So I'm looking for some advice how to proceed?

[andyp73]

When you connect to the Microsoft Remote Desktop in the guest you use the guests IP address. When you connect to the VRDE you need to connect to port 3389 on the hosts IP address.

-Andy.

[SchweizerGarde]

Thanx Andy,
this did the trick.

So AFAIK now the VRDE server is implemented as part of the Vbox Engine on the hosts. It than connects to the VM using VRDP on the guest using Vbox internal communication. So in case of a remote machine, the Vbox Engine is running on that remote machine, too. So basically, I could use a localhost address as long as I connect with mstsc.exe on the same machine.

Does mstsc.exe than handles keyboard, mouse, clipboard, printer sharing and USB sharing as usual?

BTW: When I shutdown the guest, an error is thrown. See attachment. What do you need to follow up?