[AccessD] Connect to Remote desktop sessions

Cool, thanks!

John W. Colby
www.ColbyConsulting.com


Jim Dettman wrote:
> <<Someone mentioned a RD manager snap in that you can open and select a
> specific RD session.  I will 
> be figuring that out!>>
> 
>   Click on all programs, admin tools, terminal services, terminal services
> manager.
> 
>   Sessions are listed.  Right click on anyone and select connect.   I'm sure
> it's a snap-in that you can add, but I just access it from the menu.
> 
> Jim. 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
> [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of jwcolby
> Sent: Friday, September 03, 2010 7:47 AM
> To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
> Subject: Re: [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.