connection ends, including loging off the account after x minutes.
What is significant I think is that, as you indicated, manually logging
off
the host account does not clear the condition. In fact, I have tried using
a second different client and host admin account to establish an RDC
session after disconnecting the first and experience the same failure. So
I
think the fact that the host account is still logged on after the
disconnect, is not the crux of the problem.
My supicion is that the port used for RDC (I think its something like
3389?) is in an abnormal state after the disconnect. Maybe it remains
Indeed, in testing, instead of a reboot, an
IPCONFIG /release /renew clears it for the next connection
i.e- today I discovered a release & renew renables the next session
of RDC from my serving machine-without having to reboot.
allocated to the session (port can only serve one session at a time?) or
is
no longer listening. I will try some tests to confirm that.
netstat reports it as just listening before and after my one session.
You have not mentioned another symptom that may be related to this problem
and is identified in another post ("Remote not working while not logged
in"). In my case and the other poster, an RDC session cannot be
established
with a host account unless the host account is already manually logged on.
To compare notes, can you post the host and client Windows version and
XPprosp2 both- both are from xp2 upgrade cd's, however, the one that is
serving up
my failing connection was done as a clean installation
level you are using and if you are using Admin accounts or if your
accounts
belong to an RDC group. Which firewalls (if any) are you using?
Admin accounts both ways
firewalls OFF at both ends at the momment, both machines behind routers,
only opening appropriate ports for need
(however, it happens if I do it url/url over the open web, or over the VPN
which is set up from
my pc at work-passed through the work router- router at home accepting the
VPN- not the serving xp machine)
Are you using Norton Antivirus? NAV web worm protection?
nope.- not on the serving machine.
All of these filter
certain network traffic which might prevent a proper disconnect.
not on either machine under discussion, but on a different machine, I set a
5min arp cache flush via yhe instructions at
http://www.sixdifferentways.com/archives/007675.html
the part as
SCHTASKS /CREATE /SC MINUTE /MO 5 /TN ARPFLUSH /TR
C:\WINNT\system32\netsh\interface\ip\delete\arpcache
for a workarounf
I'm wondering if a similar process for ipconfig renew might not be set for
at the end of a RDC setting
or, creating a bat file that contains ipconfig/renew and calling that bat
file from the
"program to run at the end of an RDC session" option in the client mstsc.
