How to force Remote Desktop via firewall rules to use LAN instead of WLAN?

WLAN has higher priorities than LAN but Remote Desktop seems to still use WLAN.

I tried to achieve this by setting up a firewall rule but this does not seem to do the trick.

Here is what I tried:

1) Outgoing rule restricting MSTSC.exe to LAN.

Interface type selected is LAN
Chosen "action": "allow connection"

In this case RD does not get connection even when I disable WLAN explicitely.

2) Outgoing rule banning MSTSC.exe from WLAN.

Interface type selected is WLAN
Chosen "action": "block connection"

In this case RD works when I disable WLAN explicitely.

Common settings:

Both cases refer to only the program: %SystemRoot%\System32\mstsc.exe

Any suggestions what I am doing wrong?

Raffael

Posted 2014-07-16T10:09:18.547

Reputation: 1 029

Hi again. I believe that you can try c:\windows\system32\mstsc.exe (without asking to expand environment variables) - or whatever the specific path of mstsc is (you can find with where mstsc). – cdavid – 2014-07-17T17:31:44.817

Also a setting you might have to look at is the profile - whether you are on Domain / Private / Public profile for each of the interfaces (WLAN might not be Domain, but LAN is and the rule you created applies only to Domain). – cdavid – 2014-07-17T17:33:01.543

How to force Remote Desktop via firewall rules to use LAN instead of WLAN?

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