Something's confused somewhere.
Have you verified your IP addresses?
Can you RDP into the remote box by IP?
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 10:16 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: Remote Desktop of Death
Again, it has happened to me only 4 times now. Yes, I am sure DNS is
not
messed up, and that nobody is logged onto the remote server, especially
my
personal account.
Thanks!
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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
"James Rankin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 07/29/2008 08:30:08 AM:
> Never ever heard of that happening. You normally only get that
> prompt to log people off when connecting to a console session via
> RDP that already has someone logged in. Are you sure you aren't
> working via a server (maybe Citrix) session originally and then
> trying to connect to the server again via RDP? As far as I can read
> it, that is the only way that could happen.
>
> 2008/7/29 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> 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?
>
> Thanks!
> --------------------------------------
> Richard McClary, Systems Administrator
> ASPCA Knowledge Management
> 1717 S Philo Rd, Ste 36, Urbana, IL 61802
> 217-337-9761
> http://www.aspca.org
>
>
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