I dont want to lock local screen during remote console access

[Guest Andy Scutt]

Hi

 

We have just upgraded one of our servers to 2003 which is used in our office

as a live monitoring platform. Unfortunately it is also used by remote

engineers to RDP to. Now when someone connects to the server (to the console)

the local screen locks, which is not a big issue if, when the remote

connection ends, the screen would unlock. But it doesnt - is there anything I

can do to either stop the local session getting locked when a console

connection comes in or automatically log the local session back in after rdp

session ends?

 

Thanks

[Guest Vera Noest [MVP]]

Re: I dont want to lock local screen during remote console access

 

You can not prevent the local (physical) console session from

locking, since you can only have a single console session. It's

either displayed on the physical console, or remote.

 

You cannot force the console session back to the physical console

either, but you can ask your remote engineers to disconnect through

a batchfile which you could put on the console desktop, and which

does just that. Should contain this command:

 

tscon 0 /dest:console

 

This will disconnect the remote console session and 'push' it back

to the physical console.

 

Is it really necessary for these engineers to connect to the

console session? Isn't a normal session good enough?

You can limit which administrators have permission to connect to

the console session. Check here for details:

 

How can I change which users or Administrators can connect to the

console session?

http://ts.veranoest.net/ts_faq_administration.htm#console_permissio

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Vera Noest

MCSE, CCEA, Microsoft MVP - Terminal Server

TS troubleshooting: http://ts.veranoest.net

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=?Utf-8?B?QW5keSBTY3V0dA==?= <Andy

Scutt@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote on 06 dec 2007 in

microsoft.public.windows.terminal_services:

> Hi

>

> We have just upgraded one of our servers to 2003 which is used

> in our office as a live monitoring platform. Unfortunately it is

> also used by remote engineers to RDP to. Now when someone

> connects to the server (to the console) the local screen locks,

> which is not a big issue if, when the remote connection ends,

> the screen would unlock. But it doesnt - is there anything I can

> do to either stop the local session getting locked when a

> console connection comes in or automatically log the local

> session back in after rdp session ends?

>

> Thanks