How to listen RDP socket 3389?

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Hi everyone,

i am trying to listen port number 3389 using Tcplistner class as follow.

C#

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 static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            // port number 3389 reserved as RDP listener port.
            // 3389 port for listening rdp connection request.
            TcpListener tcpListener = new TcpListener(3389);
            tcpListener.Start(); // here i got exception
            Socket socketForClient = tcpListener.AcceptSocket();
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at tcpListener.Start();
i got exception saying

"Only one usage of each socket address (protocol/network address/port) is normally permitted"

how to come out of this?

Thanks all.

Posted 8-Feb-12 6:55am

Bhavin Jagad

Updated 8-Feb-12 6:58am

Richard MacCutchan

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Richard MacCutchan 8-Feb-12 12:59pm

That suggests that there is already another application or system service listening on that port.

Bhavin Jagad 8-Feb-12 13:21pm

ya, its right. since, 3389 port is reserved for RDP connection there might be windows service which is listening that port for incoming RDP connection. i just want to know the ip of the pc which made request for RDP connection;

Richard MacCutchan 9-Feb-12 3:39am

You need to use a packet sniffer, plenty of free ones around.

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sjelen · Answer 1 · 2012-02-08T07:12:00

As the comment in your code says:
// port number 3389 reserved as RDP listener port.
this is standard RDP port, and if you have RDP enabled on your computer the RDP service is using this port.

The solution is to disable/stop RDP service or change the default listening port.

If you only want to monitor for new connections you could use GetActiveTcpConnections method:

C#

using System.Net.NetworkInformation;
...
var RdpConnections = IPGlobalProperties.GetIPGlobalProperties().GetActiveTcpConnections().Where(c => c.LocalEndPoint.Port == 3389);

Call this periodically to get new connections.
Loop through RdpConnections and look at their RemoteEndPoint for address.