Unable to RDP to the Console session of the Windows 2003 SP1 serve

[Guest kulkarni88]

Hi All,

 

We manage couple of servers for one of our customers.

 

In one of the windows 2003 servers, I am unable to do an RDP to the console

session.

 

The terminal service on windows 2003 with SP1 is set in remote

administration mode.

 

When i do a normal RDP session with out console switch it works fine and I

am able to log on to the server with out issues.

 

When i try to log in to the same server using RDP with the console switch, I

get the below mentioned error.

 

"error connecting to existing session for (id 0). the operation completed

successfully".

 

Since the RDP with out console switch is working fine, I am not sure whats

causing this problem

 

It would be highly appericated if some one can help me in resolving this

above issue.

 

Thanks in Advance

 

Mahesh

[Guest Ratnesh Yadav [MSFT]]

Re: Unable to RDP to the Console session of the Windows 2003 SP1 serve

 

Check if any application has installed another video adapter driver .....

you can find it under "Display adapters"

 

 

"kulkarni88" <kulkarni88@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message

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> Hi All,

>

> We manage couple of servers for one of our customers.

>

> In one of the windows 2003 servers, I am unable to do an RDP to the

> console

> session.

>

> The terminal service on windows 2003 with SP1 is set in remote

> administration mode.

>

> When i do a normal RDP session with out console switch it works fine and I

> am able to log on to the server with out issues.

>

> When i try to log in to the same server using RDP with the console switch,

> I

> get the below mentioned error.

>

> "error connecting to existing session for (id 0). the operation completed

> successfully".

>

> Since the RDP with out console switch is working fine, I am not sure whats

> causing this problem

>

> It would be highly appericated if some one can help me in resolving this

> above issue.

>

> Thanks in Advance

>

> Mahesh

[Guest Piet van Dongen]

Re: Unable to RDP to the Console session of the Windows 2003 SP1 serve

 

Hi Ratnesh,

 

When you connect to a machine using console (console session 0), the actual

physical console session (glass) will be assigned a temporary session ID.

When you logo off/disconnect the RDP session, the glass will still be

connected to the temporary session ID. Session ID 0 will stay in a

isconnected state forever. This makes other remote tools fail, since they

can't connect to the console session.

 

The console session will only reattach to session ID 0 when you log on

locally to the machine. Reason for not closing the disconnected console

session is by design. We keep it that way in case we have additional remote

console sessions with RDP coming in. It's a resource thing.

 

Killing the temporary session ID for the console session will make the

console session reattach to session ID 0.

 

Regards,

 

Piet van Dongen

 

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"Ratnesh Yadav [MSFT]" <Ratnesh.Yadav@microsoft.com> schreef in bericht

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> Check if any application has installed another video adapter driver .....

> you can find it under "Display adapters"

>

>

> "kulkarni88" <kulkarni88@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message

> news:354F2B4B-3872-4ED2-96FD-0CC588195D42@microsoft.com...

>> Hi All,

>>

>> We manage couple of servers for one of our customers.

>>

>> In one of the windows 2003 servers, I am unable to do an RDP to the

>> console

>> session.

>>

>> The terminal service on windows 2003 with SP1 is set in remote

>> administration mode.

>>

>> When i do a normal RDP session with out console switch it works fine and

>> I

>> am able to log on to the server with out issues.

>>

>> When i try to log in to the same server using RDP with the console

>> switch, I

>> get the below mentioned error.

>>

>> "error connecting to existing session for (id 0). the operation completed

>> successfully".

>>

>> Since the RDP with out console switch is working fine, I am not sure

>> whats

>> causing this problem

>>

>> It would be highly appericated if some one can help me in resolving this

>> above issue.

>>

>> Thanks in Advance

>>

>> Mahesh

>