{"id":243,"date":"2006-02-09T17:17:30","date_gmt":"2006-02-09T22:17:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/192.168.33.66\/wp\/?p=243"},"modified":"2006-02-09T17:17:30","modified_gmt":"2006-02-09T22:17:30","slug":"console-rdp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.wildow.com\/blog\/?p=243","title":{"rendered":"console rdp"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/headblender.com\/joe\/blog\/old\/001166.html\">Incessant Ramblings: RDP, Console Sessions, Windows 2003 Server, And You<\/A><\/p>\n<p>RDP, Console Sessions, Windows 2003 Server, And You<br \/>\nEver wanted to connect to the console session of a Win2k3 box via RDP? With XP, this is the default behavior, because only one interactive user can be logged in at a time. But 2k3 allows multiple ineractive users (and even the same user multiple times), so connecting via RDP and logging in as the console user just creates a new session and leaves the console alone. <br \/>\nHere&#8217;s a trick to let you remotely connect to the console session:<br \/>\nStart mstsc.exe and enter the settings for the computer you want to connect to <br \/>\nSave this connection to a file like &#8220;foo.rdp&#8221; <br \/>\nOpen this file in Notepad (it&#8217;s just a text file anyhow) <br \/>\nAdd a line to the file that says &#8220;connect to console:i:1&#8221; (no quotes) <br \/>\nSave the changes <br \/>\nPresto! When you launch the foo.rdp file and login to the remote system, you&#8217;ll connect to the console session. Have fun.<br \/>\n[Update] John provides this information in the comments: &#8220;&#8216;mstsc \/v:machine-name \/console&#8217; I think it picks up the other settings from Default.rdp<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Incessant Ramblings: RDP, Console Sessions, Windows 2003 Server, And You RDP, Console Sessions, Windows 2003 Server, And You Ever wanted to connect to the console session of a Win2k3 box via RDP? With XP, this is the default behavior, because &#8230; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wildow.com\/blog\/?p=243\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.wildow.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.wildow.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.wildow.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.wildow.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.wildow.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=243"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.wildow.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.wildow.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.wildow.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.wildow.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}