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

By: Kami

Kami — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 11:47:54 +0000

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.

By: Hawk

Hawk — Thu, 22 May 2008 15:40:57 +0000

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.

By: Mike

Mike — Mon, 12 May 2008 07:03:23 +0000

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

By: Mike

Mike — Mon, 12 May 2008 07:01:47 +0000

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

By: Joe

Joe — Thu, 01 May 2008 23:50:32 +0000

For XP SP3 you have to use /admin

By: Me

Me — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 10:48:05 +0000

Use /ADMIN