Remote connection to a Windows 2008 Server Web edition

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Published on 2010-10-31T13:48:20Z Indexed on 2010/12/24 8:55 UTC
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Hello I have just installed Windows 2008 web server to have a development/test site on my office.

In the test network I only have 2 machines:

Windows server 2008 Web Edition
Vista x64 client machine with Visual Studio

The client and the server are networked using a NETGEAR router.

I have enabled Remote desktop on the server and when I try to connect to it within the Vista client I get the credential window as in the following screenshot.

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But even if I write the correct credentials I am not able to remote login on the server.

Where am I doing wrong?

Update 1

I have even tried to create a folder share on the server. But I am not able to access it for the same reason. User or password invalid it says. But this is impossible as I am logging in the server with the same credentials.

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Update 2

If I try to browse the network from the RDP client I receive a message saying that there are no server running Terminal Services in my network.... :O alt text

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