A remote user establishes a VPN session to the corporate network and can successfully ping the IP address and hostname of their office workstation. File shares on that PC are also reachable, and the Windows firewall on the workstation shows that TCP port 3389 is allowed. However, the user still receives the message "Remote Desktop can't connect to the remote computer." Which of the following is the MOST likely reason for the failure?
The user account is not in the Remote Desktop Users group
An expired RDP certificate is blocking the connection
Because network reachability, firewall rules, and DNS resolution have all been confirmed, the remaining prerequisite is that the Remote Desktop feature itself must be enabled on the host. If Remote Desktop is disabled, the workstation refuses RDP connections even though other network services (e.g., file sharing, ICMP) work normally. The other options are less likely in this scenario: membership in the Remote Desktop Users group would cause a credentials or permission-related error, an expired RDP certificate would usually surface only when an RD Gateway is in use, and Windows Home editions cannot act as RDP hosts-but in most enterprises workstations run Professional or Enterprise editions.
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