If you’re reading this article, you may have encountered the following situation: After connecting to your VPS through Remote Desktop and entering your password, you received a pop-up message asking, ‘Do you want to allow your PC to be discoverable by other PCs and devices on this network? We recommend allowing this on your home and work networks, but not on public ones.’ If you chose ‘Yes,’ you likely lost the connection a few seconds later and couldn’t continue using the VPS.

To solve this problem, follow the instructions and illustrations bellow.

STEP 1

Access the machine via VNC. Click on START menu. Type in “Firewall” and select Firewall and network protection.

STEP 2

Click on “Public network“

STEP 3

Switch it off

Alternative method

STEP 1

Open “Start Menu” and type in “Firewall“. Open “Windows Defender Firewall“.

STEP 2

Go to Advanced Settings.

STEP 3

Click on “Windows Defender Firewall Properties“.

STEP 4

Go to “Public Profile“.

STEP 5

Change “Inbound Connections” to Allow