Re: Windows 2000 Remote Desktop Sharing

From: Brian Sullivan MVP (brians_at_WORMTIREDmeetingbywire.com)
Date: 12/22/04

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    Date: Tue, 21 Dec 2004 20:48:18 -0500

    On Tue, 21 Dec 2004 11:14:02 -0600, jake c wrote:

    > Mark Hendren wrote:
    >> *I'm in the process of getting NetMeeting setup on 24 school
    >> cafeteria
    >> serving line computers at 18 different sites so any of them can be
    >> accessed from a central point if there is a problem with any of
    >> them.
    >>
    >> All these systems are running Windows 2000. NetMeeting installs
    >> fine,
    >> etc... My problem is that the RDS isn't turned on when the computer
    >> is booted up. I've gone through the wizard, etc...to no avail. Is
    >> there any way to have RDS already active when the system is booted
    >> up??
    >>
    >> Thanks for any help. *
    >
    > Mark,
    >
    > I had the same frustrating problem as you desrcibed. What I did that
    > finally worked was run msconfig (you will have to install it for
    > win2000) and check to see if conf is checked to run at startup. This
    > can be verified under the startup tab. If it is disable it. What
    > appears to be happening is that Netmeeting is running and disabling RDS
    >
    > after reboot. I don't know why conf was running at startup. But
    > anyway it works now. Hope this helps...
    >
    > Jake

    NetMeeting can be configured to automatically run waiting for regular calls
    and also to not show in the system tray ( run NetMeeting -- the tools
    options general tab has controls) even when RDS has been enabled. And when
    normal NetMeeting is running RDS is not activated ( and the activate item
    is greyed out)

    So what Mark says is certainly possible and would seem to fit your
    symptoms. 

    -- 
Brian Sullivan (MVP)
Meeting by Wire ( www.meetingbywire.com)
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