Remote Desktop sessions?? 2

[hanglam]

Hi,

I have two servers that are joined to a domain. I have Remote Desktop Connection enable for both of them. But when two people connect to a server using a Remote Desktop Connection, they opened two different sessions in the server (each user has its own session)

My question is:

How do I configured the servers so that no new sessions are created and only the current session is used by both users?

Thanks,
Hang

 

[58sniper]

You can't have two users using the same session at the same time.

Pat Richard MVP
Plan for performance, and capacity takes care of itself. Plan for capacity, and suffer poor performance.

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[Lemon13]

u can, try remotesupport, there u can share a session, but only one will be able 2 work, the other can only view.
if u need more sessions install terminalserver

 

[hanglam]

thanks for the quick replies ...

So my understanding is that suppose:
1. I have server with a application running, for example "Microsoft Word" up on the server's screen.
2. There are two users, "User1" and "User2".
3. If "User1" logins to the server using a Remote Desktop Connection, can "User1" used the same session as the server's session? In other words, can "User1" see me typing into Microsoft Word when he is connected to the server?
4. And if another user, "User2" connects to the server using a Remote Desktop connection, will he be able to see me typing as well on the server's screen?

I want all users who login to the server using Remote Desktop to be able to see the same screen, so that they won't open any application that might affect the server while somebody else is working on it.

My question is can I configure Terminal services to allow all users who login using the Remote Desktop feature of Microsoft to see the same session running on the server? It is not important at this point that only one user can work during that session. The second user can wait until the first one finish what he is doing.

Is this possible by configuring the Group Policy for Terminal Services?

Thanks,
Hang

 

[58sniper]

Not that I'm aware of. Never even heard of a request like that before.

Pat Richard MVP
Plan for performance, and capacity takes care of itself. Plan for capacity, and suffer poor performance.

http://www.ucblogs.net/blogs/exchange/

 

[Lemon13]

3. no, they can´t, the remotesupport is usally for helpdesk support, and it has to be initiated either by a user (ask for remotesupport) or the helpdesk (offer rs)

if the user can wait, just limit the rdp sessions to one

"My question is can.." like 58sniper says, afik not

 

[allywilson]

Sounds like you need to use VNC/radmin rather than RDP.

 

[TechyMcSe2k]

--That is like asking 2 servers to write to the same shared disk at the same time. --

Sounds like you need a GoToMeeting software or something where users can collaborate on a central presentation???

 

[hanglam]

thanks guys, I'll let my co-workers know about this info...

Hang

 

[strongm]

>3. no, they can´t,

Er, actually they can. Make an RDP connection to the server in the normal way, open a command console and type "shadow 0". What we are doing here is shadowing the console session

And
>can I configure Terminal services to allow all users who login using the Remote Desktop feature of Microsoft to see the same session ... The second user can wait until the first one finish

Yep. Again, we want to view the console session, this time directly. We can create shortcut which runs

mstsc -v:servername /F -console

where servername is your target server (and /F just indicates full screen mode)

 

[hanglam]

thanks strongm,

I think you got it ... I'll try that today ...

Hang

 

[Lemon13]

hi strongm,

i tried what u recommended, but i´m getting errors, for
shadow 0 in the console i get error 7050, for
mstsc -v:servername /F -console i get error 7051, the session isnt configured as remote monitoring session, where do i configure that?

still, sounds interesting, do u have a link where i can read a bit more about it?

 

[strongm]

I should have pointed out that this only works if the target system is Windows 2003 or later

 

[josephdavis]

In short, using RDP this is not possible for regular users. If your users are administrators of the server, try this:

1. Have both user1 and user2 login. (Both users should have their own session.)
2. Have either user1 or user2 open task manager, select the users tab, right click on the other user and select Remote Control.
3. A window will appear instructing the user how to end the remote control session. After the user clicks OK, a message will appear on the other users' screen asking them to allow the first user access.

Using this method, both users will be able to use the same session at the same time. If one user cannot interact with the session, do this:
1. Open Terminal Services Configuration from Administrative Tools.
2. Select Connections and double-click the "RDP-Tcp" connection.
3. Select the Remote Control tab.
4. Enable the Use Remote Control with the following settings option.
5. Enable Interact with the session.
6. Click OK (both users will have to logout and login again for setting to take effect).

If you want to remove the approval prompt, do this:
1. Open Terminal Services Configuration from Administrative Tools.
2. Select Connections and double-click the "RDP-Tcp" connection.
3. Select the Remote Control tab.
4. Enable the Use Remote Control with the following settings option.
5. Disable the Require user's permission option.
6. Click OK (both users will have to logout and login again for setting to take effect).

-Joe

http://josephmdavis.com