Stop Terminal Services loggin warnings when connections exceeded

[gmail2]

We have one win 2000 server (all our others are 2003) which has terminal services installed in remote administration mode. It works fine, however, every time somebody tries to connect when there are no available connections (because the 2 are already taken up) it logs a warning in the application log stating that terminal services has exceeded the max no. of allowed connectinos. Is there any way to stop this ?

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[58sniper]

No that I'm aware of. So you have more than two admins trying to get in at the same time? Seems like you could end up with some administration problems.

Pat Richard, MCSE(2) MCSA:Messaging, CNA(2)

 

[gmail2]

>> No that I'm aware of
Ok, that's fair enough - Guess I'll just have to live with it then


>> So you have more than two admins trying to get in at the same time? Seems like you could end up with some administration problems

Well, I woudln't say there's 2 people working on the same server at the same time. There might be 2 people logged in at the same time, but doing different things. Sometimes we need to transfer files to remote offices from the server (for users moving offices) etc. Or sometimes somebody opens a TS session and forgets about it. So then when somebody else tries we get the error in the log. I don't want to configure it to time out after x minutes of idle time just incase somebody opens it up to transfer a file or something and then leaves it. Because it's not really idle then.

Anyway, now I'm waffling !! Guess I'll just have to live with the erros in the logs for now. Thanks for your reply


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[Andrea79]

I think this may be due to the way you have your Windows 2000 box setup to display all error messages. You can change this in the registry from:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Windows
Change the Error Mode key to a value of either 1 or 2...by default it is at 0 which displays all error. If you set it to 1 it should only show application errors, and 2 passes all of the errors along to event viewer.
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[gmail2]

Thanks Andrea79, but I'm slightly confused. You say that a value of 1 should only show application errors - do you mean that the system log will effectively be empty then? But then you went on to say that a value of 2 passes all errors to the event viewer - I thought that's what 0 does !?!?!?!

by default it is at 0 which displays all error

Would you mind clarifying for a poor old confused soul

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