I spent two hours troubleshooting why I couldn’t Remote Desktop into my home PC from my laptop. I kept getting the "Remote Desktop can't connect to the remote computer" error. Turns out, Norton Security was silently blocking the connection.
Once you find the setting, it works solidly. Norton doesn't corrupt the RDP stack; it just firewalls it. The "Silent Mode" is helpful for troubleshooting, but that’s a temporary fix. norton security allow remote desktop connection
Finally figured it out: Norton blocks RDP by default (3/5 stars) I spent two hours troubleshooting why I couldn’t