[AccessD] Connect to Remote desktop sessions

Gustav,

 > You can RD into a guest system as well. That may be preferable to using the VM console.

Yes, you are correct.

 >If connection is lost just open a new session.

The problem is that on Windows 2003 there are actually three user sessions allowed (AFAICT).  One is 
used for the physical login and two for remote desktop.

So I log in and start SQL Server and start a process running.  In order to keep that software 
running I do not log out, I just disconnect.  Most of the time I RD back in and hit that connection. 
  However occasionally (mistakenly) I open a new session while I have the original open (two open 
sessions at the same time).  Now I close the FIRST session and then close the SECOND session.  I had 
an instance where I could log in but got the second session, and when I tried to log in again it 
said that I couldn't get the first session.

Someone mentioned a RD manager snap in that you can open and select a specific RD session.  I will 
be figuring that out!

John W. Colby
www.ColbyConsulting.com


Gustav Brock wrote:
> Hi John
> 
> Never had issues with RD to the host system. If connection is lost just open a new session.
> You can RD into a guest system as well. That may be preferable to using the VM console.
> 
> /gustav
> 
> 
>>>> jwcolby at colbyconsulting.com 02-09-2010 20:03 >>>
> Does anyone know how to connect to a remote desktop session?
> 
> I run a VM on my Windows 2003 server. I remote desktop into the server and run the VMWare local host 
> server software, fire up the vm and let it run.  I have had instances where I disconnect from the RD 
> session and can't connect to that session again.  If anything goes wrong I don't want to reboot the 
> server with the VM running.
> 
> It just occurred to me that I could probably RD into the VM and shut that down, then even though the 
> VMWare server software was running it wouldn't damage my VM to do a reboot.
> 
> I just thought I'd ask if anyone out there has seen this issue.
> 
> Also, does anyone know if there is a free vmware "bare metal" server software that would allow me to 
> set up a VMWare server that runs directly on the hardware instead of on an instance of Windows Server.
>