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Question about remote desktop on windows 2003 server


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I have a question on remote desktop on windows server 2003, when I connect to the server on a already opened session, it seem to create a new session, not resume the already open one.

Example : on windows XP, I log into my account directly and open a word document, then I can go to another computer and connect remotly to windows XP, log in and I will see that word document still open.

On windows 2003, if I do the same thing, it will open a new session without the word document, If I go back directly to the computer, I can still see the document, but I can not do it remotly.

Is there any option for the remote desktop to fix the problem?

thank you.

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The reason it does that is because the Remote Desktop for Server 2k3 is alil different.

With 2k3 you can have a local session (the console), and a remote desktop connection going simultaniously with the same user (i believe it has to be the administrator, but Im not 100% on that.)

What you want to do is connect to the console, which you could do from the command line remote desktop client.

mstsc /v:yourserverip /console

(and you could specify what height/width you want to use for the connection or it will default to full screen or whatever is the default setting for your configuration. youd just use /w:800 /h:640 for 800x600

Or save the settings with the Remote Desktop client to an rdp file, and then run

mstsc savedrdpfilename.rdp /console

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