Re: how to share a host computer using "remote desktop connection"?

Tony Young wrote:
When I establish a "remote desktop connection" from a client XP
to a host XP, I always get a message warning that the host's
administrator will be logged out. That means if somebody works on
the host site, his/her session will be terminated without his/her
consent. Is there a way that both I and he/she can share the host
computer at the same time without interfering with each other?
Please help. Thank you for any advise.

Shenan Stanley wrote:
Not without using a third party application or a "hack" where you
replace a file with an older (beta version) of a file in Windows
XP. (Not even sure if you can do it with a third party application
the way you describe it.)

Tony Young wrote:
Another article I just read implies that two different
administrator users mutually exclusively dominates the host
computer. But it also says "If an administrator attempts to
connect and is currently logged on to the console, the
administrator can connect to that console session remotely
immediately". Then are both sessions (on host and client PCs)
active at the same time? Or the host's one will be suspended?

Shenan Stanley wrote:
Either the article you read (please list its location) is for
Windows Server (2000/2003/2003 R2), in reference to "Shadowing" or
in reference to the hack I mentioned eralier.

With Windows 2000/2003(&R2) - you can have multiple Terminal
Service(Remote Desktop) connections. (Two remote, one console, and
it is easy to share the console session with another user.) With
standard Windows XP - you cannot do this.

Tony Young wrote:
You mentioned that standard XP cannot do this. How about
professional XP? My company recently bought some expensive x64 bit
machines, shared by more developers. Hopefully professional XP's
will allow this type of sharing.

The article I read got from Microsoft Knowledge from my home
computer. Here is its info:

"How a Remote Desktop Connection Affects Windows XP Professional
View products that this article applies to."
Article ID : 280828
Last Review : January 25, 2006
Revision : 1.1
This article was previously published under Q280828

I appreciate your time and further help.

Sorry for the confusion.. By "Standard XP" I meant "Unhacked XP". Any of
those listed here:
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/evaluation/compare.mspx

According to the article you refer to:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/280828

What they are saying is this..

You are sitting at your Windows XP Computer - directly at its keyboard -
logged in as an administrator (or any other user for that matter that is a
member of the Remote Desktop Users group..) and then you either lock the
screen or just walk away.. You go FAR away. No one else touches said
machine and you have no auto-logoff procedure in place. You go to some
computer other than the one you were at and remote to that first computer.
You log in as the same user (same username/password) as what you left it
logged in with.. It logs you right into the console session you were using
when you left - locking the screen (if it was not) on the machine so that
others know you are logged in.

Now - if you were to attempt to logon with a different user (administrator)
than the one you left logged onto the console when you left that first
computer - it would warn you that you are about to log them off.. and if you
chose to continue - you *would* log them off.

Multiple (concurrent) Terminal Service (Remote Desktop) connections are not
doable with a Windows XP (any version I know of currently) system th at has
not been *hacked* to allow this - making it an unsupported feature.

You can - in conjunction with Windows 2003 servers - setup a shadowing
session with another user on a Windows XP system... Where two users (or
more) are all viewing the same screen. You can also use Remote Assistance
so that not only the console user, but the person on the remote end see the
same thing.

You cannot - without the hack - log onto a Windows XP Workstation (any
version from the web link above) remotely or locally as Administrator1 and
stayed logged in when Administrator2 tries to connect remotely (and chooses
to kick you off).

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Shenan Stanley
MS-MVP
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