Everytime I use Remote Desktop from XP, or CITRIX, to connect to our Windows 2003 Server, I get a cdm.exe error and I have to End Task to log off. The conections run fine, but as I try to log off I get the error. Any ideas?
No. It does it on pc's without local printers and with. they are not mapping to local drives either. This happens with Citrix and Remote Desktop. I can't find anything unusual like a mapped drive that isn't there anymore. Nothing like that.
Event viewer says "The CDM redirector has timed out a request". This only happens on our Citrix server so I'm leaning towards Citrix. There is a metaframe error in Event Viewer that states "An error occurred retreiving client printer properties. Default printer properties will be used instead". This CDm error just started. No change has been made to the server, printers or clients. Besides, it doesn't matter which client box you log on with. Citrix or Remote Desktop. Remote Desktop leans me away from the Citrix contradicting what I said earlier in the post.
Document ID: CTX207308, Created on: Aug 1, 2000, Updated: Jun 10, 2003
Products: Citrix MetaFrame 1.8 for Microsoft NT 4.0 Server Terminal Server Edition, Citrix MetaFrame 1.8 for Microsoft Windows 2000
In the Events Viewer, one might find a varied number of Event ID 70 in Source: CDM Redirector. This occurs when the CDM Redirector timed out on a request to access a client device.
This can happen when an application is attempting to access a client device during a disconnect. Check Citrix Server Administration when you see this event appear. The best way to determine what client device is causing this issue is to turn off client device mapping (client drive, client COM ports, client printers). Enable them one at a time and monitor the client's logon process.
If you find that you are receiving these timeouts due to network latency, you can modify the timeout values in the registry key shown below:
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Tried the Citrix articles already. Time doesn't seem to affect it. You can be on doing nothing for 5 min and it still does it. Tried disconnecting the mapped drive (theres only one) too.
Did you do this (mentioned in the Citrix Article) in order to troubleshoot the problem:
"This can happen when an application is attempting to access a client device during a disconnect. Check Citrix Server Administration when you see this event appear. The best way to determine what client device is causing this issue is to turn off client device mapping (client drive, client COM ports, client printers). Enable them one at a time and monitor the client's logon process."
The Reg hack is only for problems related to Slow Network problems.
I think your guess is right...this seems to be Citrix problem. You may consider calling Citrix to help you out on this problem or jump into a Citrix thread...probably get better advice...
Joseph L. Poandl
MCSE 2003
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