To the TS guru out there.
I am looking for a solution to the remote desktop problem that exists on XP machines when logged into a domain. As I understand it, when running XP, if you've logged into a domain fast user switching is disabled and hence if a domain admin logs into a user's XP machine it kicks out the locally logged in user. I am supporting 100 - 150 production line computers and I'd like to be able to make a remote desktop connection to each one without having to kick the users out.
Windows 2003 Server isn't an option and neither is installing third party tools which allow this (because they're too expensive - i.e. Thinsoft - and I haven't found a cheap/freeware one). I don't want to use VNC because sometimes people are working on these workstations and I don't want to take control of their machine or interrupt their work. The registry hacks out there don't work on a machine that logs into a domain...
I'd like to code my own solution but I haven't done any thin client programming with regards to Terminal Services. Can anyone point me in the right direction on writing a little program in Visual Studio C++, VB (5,6 or .Net) or C# that would allow me to open up a second Terminal Server session on an XP machine?
-Rick IT Pro
I am looking for a solution to the remote desktop problem that exists on XP machines when logged into a domain. As I understand it, when running XP, if you've logged into a domain fast user switching is disabled and hence if a domain admin logs into a user's XP machine it kicks out the locally logged in user. I am supporting 100 - 150 production line computers and I'd like to be able to make a remote desktop connection to each one without having to kick the users out.
Windows 2003 Server isn't an option and neither is installing third party tools which allow this (because they're too expensive - i.e. Thinsoft - and I haven't found a cheap/freeware one). I don't want to use VNC because sometimes people are working on these workstations and I don't want to take control of their machine or interrupt their work. The registry hacks out there don't work on a machine that logs into a domain...
I'd like to code my own solution but I haven't done any thin client programming with regards to Terminal Services. Can anyone point me in the right direction on writing a little program in Visual Studio C++, VB (5,6 or .Net) or C# that would allow me to open up a second Terminal Server session on an XP machine?
-Rick IT Pro