Windows XP(e) refusing to connect to a terminal server

Today a error message reappeared I thought I wouldn’t see again. We use Wyse Thin Clients and 2X running on two terminal servers, to provide the thin clients with applications. Now, once a while one of the thin clients (not all at once, just a single one) refuse to connect to the terminal server jabbing about this: 1 The remote computer disconnected the session because of an error in the licensing protocol. The error message you get from the 2X client ain’t the slightest bit more helpful. ...

July 23, 2009 · 1 min · 155 words · christian

Connecting to a remote console with MSTSC 6-0-6001

Well, as one can read in about every damn post you can find for that topic, the /console switch is now silently ignored, as well as the rdp file option " connect to console:i:1". Now, what you don’t find anywhere (only in some scenario explanation), that it is allowed to specify the mode (ie /console previously and now /admin) within the full address parameter. Scenario: In the RDC client UI, you specify Computer_name /console in the Computer box (where Computer_name represents the name of the remote computer to which you want to connect), and then click Connect. ...

July 23, 2008 · 2 min · 259 words · christian