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Help with Remote Desktop using Windows Server 2003

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Hi,

I just set up a dedicated server for counter strike source. Its also going to be a webserver, and share a couple printers eventually.

Anyways I'm having a bit of a problem getting Remote Desktop to work how I want it to.

On Windows XP if you log into your computer using remote desktop from another machine on the network, your computer locks and you continue your session from the remote computer.

I'm trying to achieve the same thing when I connect to my server. Right now it just starts a new session and I can't interact with the programs I am running on the server (source dedicated server, IIS or apache, etc).

An example would be if I boot up the server, log into Administrator. Then I would go to my workstation, or even a computer at a friends house or school and connect via remote desktop. Doing this just logs Administrator in again. I would like it to take over the current session.

Does anyone know how to get this working? I'd like to just throw this machine in a closet or something and just administer it remotely.

Thanks in advance for your help.
 
MSTSC.EXE is the remote desktop client program. If you're just using an icon you've found installed in the Start menu, you're just running this program without any command-line options.

You can connect to the desktop on a 2003 Server machine by passing the MSTSC.EXE application the "/console" option on its command line. You can set up your own short cut (or modify the existing one, I suppose) to include this option and I think you'll have the client behaving the way you want.
 
mikeblas said:
MSTSC.EXE is the remote desktop client program. If you're just using an icon you've found installed in the Start menu, you're just running this program without any command-line options.

You can connect to the desktop on a 2003 Server machine by passing the MSTSC.EXE application the "/console" option on its command line. You can set up your own short cut (or modify the existing one, I suppose) to include this option and I think you'll have the client behaving the way you want.
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Hmm I wonder if the *nix rdesktop client has that option. I usually use VNC when no-one is using the Windows box, but if 'rents are using it or somethang, I use RDP since its pretty much invisible to the local user (other than minor performance hits depending on what I'm doing remotely).

On that note...all RDP connections are natively encrypted/don't require tunneling?
 
So i dont have to change anything on the server then?

EDIT: Thanks mikeblas that worked.
 
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