«
»

/console for Remote Desktop fails in Windows XP Service Pack 3 RC2

I often use the /console option in Remote Desktop to connect to an existing session.  Generally I leave my desktop logged in and locked at work – if I need to access any files on it remotely I can VPN into my works network and use Remote Desktop to connect to “computername.work.edu /console” and it will connect to my existing session. It’s great, because it means I can leave VS or SQL Server Management Studio open and acces my work right from where I left off.

However, after installing the latest RC of SP3 on my laptop, I can no longer connect from my  laptop to my desktop.  I can’t find a work around and have downgraded back to SP2 and am happily Remoting again :)

This entry was posted on Saturday, March 8th, 2008 at 9:49 am and is filed under remote desktop, windows. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

6 Responses to “/console for Remote Desktop fails in Windows XP Service Pack 3 RC2”

  1. Me Says:
    April 28th, 2008 at 3:48 am

    Use /ADMIN

  2. Joe Says:
    May 1st, 2008 at 4:50 pm

    For XP SP3 you have to use /admin

  3. Mike Says:
    May 12th, 2008 at 12:01 am

    Hi there.

    I have an issue I cannot solve. I have previosuly installed Admin Pack from MS win Server 03, where I use Remote Desktops. After installation of SP3, I’m unable to connect myself to any of my servers on the list, despite that checkbox is enable for console.

    Is there any solution out yet?

    Thank You,
    Best Regards

  4. Mike Says:
    May 12th, 2008 at 12:03 am

    Sorry… I meant I cannot connect myself directly to console but it always create new sessions.

  5. Hawk Says:
    May 22nd, 2008 at 8:40 am

    Ditto to what Mike Says is saying. We are experiencing the same issue. Using Remote Desktops from the Windows 2003 R2 admin pak we are NOT connecting to the console session of our servers despite the box being checked. We also use Real VNC as another way of managing our servers so this appears to be the only way we can connect to the console. It seems the issue began when we upgraded to SP3 on our workstations. However, the same issue occurs when running remote desktops from my Vista x64 workstation with the admin pak r2 installed.

  6. Kami Says:
    August 27th, 2008 at 4:47 am

    Using

    mstsc /admin

    instead of /console works. It will allow you to connect to the existing console session. Annoying that MS in their infinite wisdom changed it.

Leave a Reply