Fix: Your Computer Can't Connect to the Remote Desktop

Windows Troubleshooting
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Originally published at: Fix: Your Computer Can't Connect to the Remote Desktop

The error ‘Your computer can’t connect to the Remote Desktop Gateway Server’ trips when you are not able to connect to a remote system. The reason behind the error seems to be the use of HTTP/UDP connection by the Remote Desktop client. The Remote Desktop client has been receiving updates from Microsoft from time to…

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thanks for this it worked, appreciated …but interestingly i have 3 others users who didn’t need this, dont have the key and are working on the same RDG server , today it just stopped working until I put this reg key in…would love to know why this happened.

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Try the instructions here:

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This still works… thank you!

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I have another workaround:
put your Gateway IP address in the client’s hosts file. that’s it. this way you won’t disable UDP functionality.
I have no idea why host file works but regular DNS resolution does not, but hosts file does the trick.

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Worked for my users too, many thanks Kevin

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Above Method worked and a treat
Good man