Re: Remote Desktop & Consoles ...

[Chris Hunter <cjhunter@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

another:

... only one user at a time can control the desktop of a computer
running Windows XP Professional.   Is someone logs on locally to the
remote computer, the remote session is immediately disconnected
without warning to the users at either end ... the good news is that
no data is lost ...

Chris

PS: ' obviously not up to speed on this, but am avidly digging into
it all as & when I get a moment ...




On 15 Sep 2007, at 08:10, Chris Hunter wrote:

>
> ICIH ... some quotes from my MS Windows XP Inside Out tome ...
>
> MMC console can be run in author mode or in three varieties of user
> mode.   Author mode gives you full access to MMC's menus &
> options ... name.msc / a ... where name is the file name of the
> console file.
>
> Many of the consoles supplied by Microsoft are set up to operate on
> the local computer by default, but - provided you have appropriate
> permissions - they can also be used to manage remote
> computers ... .... name.msc / computer=computername ...
>
> Chris
>
>
>
> Friday, 14 Sep'07 - 00:53:00 BDT
>
> from: david.gumbrell@xxxxxxx
>
> Hi Paul -
>
> I tried turning off all the redirects & still seem to have the
> problem.   Not sure how to ensure I get to the console from the
> 'Mac version - or if 'XP Pro RDP server actually allows anything
> other than console (I don't think it allows multiple users, but I
> am not a 'Windows admin', so not up on this stuff).
>
> Cheers
>
> David