File sharing using remote desktop

Get new features first. Was this information helpful? Yes No. Thank you! Any more feedback? The more you tell us the more we can help. Can you help us improve? Resolved my issue. Clear instructions. Easy to follow. No jargon. Pictures helped. Archived Forums. Windows 10 Networking. Sign in to vote. When I try to access files on my desktop from my surface, I get the message "The remote device won't accept the connection" When I click on Diagnostics, it tells me "The device or resource is not set up to accept connection on port "The File and printer sharing port SMB "" I am also unable to use remote desktop on the Surface to get into the Desktop.

I can access files on the Surface from My desktop and I can use Remote desktop without problems. Until about a month or so ago this worked both ways without issue. Friday, November 16, AM. Do you have any third party security product on the surface? Try turning off the Windows Defender Firewall and third party firewall if present and testing. Saturday, November 17, PM. Hi, The general solution was to insure that certain services were running and the feature SMB 1.

Add rule Port and enable it. Best regards, Travis Please remember to mark the replies as an answers if they help.

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Best Regards, Travis Please remember to mark the replies as an answers if they help. Wednesday, November 21, AM. I am not running third party security software on either device. Turning off the firewall did not help, unfortunately. Here are my results from the PowerShell prompt:. Friday, November 23, AM. I tried creating the rule for Port and it did not help.

Remote Desktop Protocol settings files are designed to be interchangeable with other software that allows RDP connections. Once your RDP file is saved, you can then use it to directly connect to your remote desktop in future.

Double-clicking on the file to open it will launch the RDC tool and automatically connect with your predetermined settings applied.

You can also access the file from within the Remote Desktop Connection tool by clicking Open under the Connection settings section. If, at any point, you wish to change these settings, then follow the instructions above to overwrite the saved RDP file. While Windows comes with the RDC tool, you can use other, third-party remote desktop connection software to connect to Windows and other operating systems. VNC is one of the more popular alternative protocols to RDP, with various connection clients you can use.

One of the most popular VNC server-client software combinations is RealVNC , but this only supports file transfers with a professional or enterprise subscription.

Installing TightVNC generally installs both the server and the viewer components, unless you customize this during the setup process. If you want to cancel the transfer, click the Cancel button at the bottom of the window.