Having "Allow remote connections to this server" disabled I still can connect from another machine

Question

I have a Window server with a SQL Server 2017 for which I locally have disabled the "Allow remote connections to this server" option.

Nevertheless, I still can connect to that SQL Server from my personal PC by using SSMS.

How is it possible if remote connections are not allowed?

Or, what are exactly the so called remote connections?

Answer 1

This option seems to imply "Allow connecting to this server across a network", but that is not correct (even though I've been guilty of thinking that was the case for more than 10 years!)

The answer (as given by Dan Guzman above as a comment) is the correct answer.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/database-engine/configure-windows/configure-the-remote-access-server-configuration-option?view=sql-server-ver15