Sounds like there's a DNS issue where your machine and the destination
server are pointing to the same location.
Do you get the same results if you use the IP of the destination server?
IPCONFIG /FlushDNS
Ping the server and your machine and verify the results.
Roger Wright
Network Administrator
727.572.7076 x388
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Roger Wright
Network Administrator
727.572.7076 x388
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-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2008 8:55 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Remote Desktop of Death
I am on my XP desktop, and I run mstsc.exe to open a session on a
server.
(In the most recent case, the server was a VM, so remote session is the
only real possibility.)
Again, I am logged into my XP desktop as my personal account, and I try
to
log into a remote server with a different, administrative account.
My "warning message" is that the remote server already has my personal,
non-admin account logged into a session on it.
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Richard McClary, Systems Administrator
ASPCA Knowledge Management
1717 S Philo Rd, Ste 36, Urbana, IL 61802
217-337-9761
http://www.aspca.org
Ken Schaefer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 07/29/2008 07:39:51 AM:
> Can you clarify this?
>
> > I need to open a remote desktop session on a server.
>
> Is this:
> a) you are running mstsc.exe on your local Vista machine, and
> (trying to) open a session to a server
> -or-
> b) you are on a server (console or RD) and you need to open a remote
> desktop session somewhere else?
>
> Cheers
> Ken
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Sent: Tuesday, 29 July 2008 10:19 PM
> > To: NT System Admin Issues
> > Subject: Remote Desktop of Death
> >
> > OK, why does this happen on occasion?
> >
> > All our servers are Win2003, most are R2 SP2. Our desktops are all
XP
> > Pro, SP2...
> >
> > I need to open a remote desktop session on a server. I attempt to
log
in
> > as a local administrator on that machine (not the account running on
my
> > desktop system). I am told that "I" (that is, the account on my
local
> > desktop) is currently logged into this server - do I want to log him
off?
> > When I hit the "Yes" button, I watch in horror as all my currently
running
> > desktop apps shut down, one by one, until I am logged off my desktop
> > session.
> >
> > This has happened perhaps 4 times to me. Now that I've lost a
precious 5
> > minutes getting back up and running (got a project engineer arriving
> > shortly), any ideas as to why this happens? Once I learn to
recognize
the
> > signs of "This will hose you!", is there a good way to back out and
get a
> > functional term session?
>
>
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