Hijacking Remote Desktop (RDP) session

[Guest Kenneth Porter]

How can I connect to an existing Administrator session on my Win2003

server? I know I have 3 available sessions, including the /console session.

If two sessions are disconnected, I expect to get the session selection

dialog. But I'd sometimes like to be able to grab a session I'd left

connected from another workstation. For example, I start using a program

from my office, then walk across the building and want to resume what I was

working on from another station.

 

XP has a single session, so if I try to connect to a workstation that's

already connected and use the same credentials, I'll get the same session.

I'd like to be able to do the same with the 3 server sessions.

[Guest Pegasus \(MVP\)]

Re: Hijacking Remote Desktop (RDP) session

 

 

"Kenneth Porter" <shiva.blacklist@sewingwitch.com> wrote in message

news:Xns9A61886AAF77Eshivasewingwitchcom@207.46.248.16...

> How can I connect to an existing Administrator session on my Win2003

> server? I know I have 3 available sessions, including the /console

> session.

> If two sessions are disconnected, I expect to get the session selection

> dialog. But I'd sometimes like to be able to grab a session I'd left

> connected from another workstation. For example, I start using a program

> from my office, then walk across the building and want to resume what I

> was

> working on from another station.

>

> XP has a single session, so if I try to connect to a workstation that's

> already connected and use the same credentials, I'll get the same session.

> I'd like to be able to do the same with the 3 server sessions.

 

Have a look at shadowing a console session:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/278845/

[Guest Bruce Sanderson]

Re: Hijacking Remote Desktop (RDP) session

 

If your initial session is at the console (local logon), you can take over

this session remotely by using the command:

 

mstsc /console /v:ServerName

or

mstsc /admin /v:ServerName

 

The first is for the Remote Desktop Client on XP and the later for the

Remote Desktop Client for Vista.

 

If your initial session is remote - via RDP - it won't be a "console"

session so you don't need the /console switch to move that session to a

different workstation, but you won't be able to re-connect to it from the

console, although you should be able to "shadow" it as suggested by Pegasus.

 

--

Bruce Sanderson

http://members.shaw.ca/bsanders

 

It is perfectly useless to know the right answer to the wrong question.

 

 

 

"Kenneth Porter" <shiva.blacklist@sewingwitch.com> wrote in message

news:Xns9A61886AAF77Eshivasewingwitchcom@207.46.248.16...

> How can I connect to an existing Administrator session on my Win2003

> server? I know I have 3 available sessions, including the /console

> session.

> If two sessions are disconnected, I expect to get the session selection

> dialog. But I'd sometimes like to be able to grab a session I'd left

> connected from another workstation. For example, I start using a program

> from my office, then walk across the building and want to resume what I

> was

> working on from another station.

>

> XP has a single session, so if I try to connect to a workstation that's

> already connected and use the same credentials, I'll get the same session.

> I'd like to be able to do the same with the 3 server sessions.