RDP Disconnected! Error Code: 2308 Error Description: Socket closed

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We restarted our Windows 2003 server R2 last night (09/27) and since that day we can not connect through RDP.

We have this kind of error using mRemote:

RDP Disconnected! Error Code: 2308 Error Description: Socket closed

Using Remote Desktop Connection we have :

This computer can't connect to the remote computer. Try connecting again. If the problem continues, contact the owner of the remote computer or your network administrator.

Does anybody knows How to bound TCP to only one NIC ? could you please give me the path or command? Is there any command line I could use to do it?

Thank you for your help

Sabine (Houston,TX)

Best Answer

I've faced a similar issue, error 2308.

How I fixed it:

I've opened services.msc on my machine.
Connected via RPC to the server with non-working RDP.
Restarted service "Terminal Service" and dependent service "Terminal Service UserMode Port Redirector".
Connected to RDP successfully.

Note: on Windows Server 2008 (and probably 2012), these services are called Remote Desktop Services and Remote Desktop Services UserMode Port Redirector. Another user reported being ableto fix the issue by just restarting the port redirector service.

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That's a bit drastic, but I've had the need to do that in a very similar environment to what you describe. I also open a cmd window and start a ping -t against the server to watch when the IP stack goes down and comes back up. This is a very useful indicator of activity when you don't have physical access to the server (or are too lazy to get up and walk over to it).

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