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rdp is Remote Desktop Protocol, used by Windows to view and control other Windows systems

RDP allows remote windows users to view and interact with a remote windows server as if they were sitting at that server's desktop.

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Securing RDP for a public web server

I'm a developer of a server-based web application. My client has organised a virtual server to be hosted with one of their ISPs. The server is running Windows Server 2008 R2. It's a completely standalone machine (i.e. no domain, no policies pushed…
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Seamless Remote Windows on Linux Client

I really like the RemoteApp features of Windows Server 2008 Are there any solutions for similar functionality for Linux clients and a Windows server? We have users that are running Linux on the desktop and rdesktop to a Windows server, mostly for…
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Remote Desktop Problem on Windows Server 2008 R2

Revised this question to be more concise, consolidating several revisions. Symptoms: From a domain-member Windows 7 Client: Domain credentials to a domain controller => success Domain credentials to a member server (by hostname or FQDN) =>…
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How to encode the rdesktop password parameter in a shell script?

I can connect with this script from linux to a windows RDP session: #!/bin/bash /usr/bin/rdesktop -N -x m -u Administrator -p secret123 -d DOMAIN1 127.0.0.1:33891 (The rdp port of the remote windows server is securely tunneled to port 33891 on…
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RDP Console / Admin Session

When i connect to Windows 2003 machines i can use the /console switch and essentially get a third remote administration session on the server. This doesn't seem to work on Windows 2008 R2, only 2 sessions are allowed. Has this feature been removed…
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RemoteApp idle time before disconnecting

I have a Windows Server 2008 R2 with RemoteApp service installed. I have published a certain application and created an RDP file for it. After the user has finished using this remote application and closes the window there's a "grace period" of 20…
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Tools for Remote Desktop with Relay feature

Is there good tool that can do same thing as windows 'mstsc' and also has some features, like save different session info, so don't need to remember difference IP/ID/pwd. Thanks. EDIT: Since I can't directly RDP to remote hosts, instead, I have to…
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Bypass RDP Client Warning

How do I bypass the security warning in the RDP Client everytime you launch it from a RDP shortcut? The message title reads: "The publisher of this remote connection cannot be identified. Do you want to connect anyway?" There's a checkbox that…
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Virtual Server: RDP under attack?

My newly acquired windows 2008 virtual server now has 3.500 entries (in three days) in its security log, most of which are of event ID 4625: "An account failed to log on". The login attempts appear rather quick - about 10-20 attempts per second. I…
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Dual Monitor support rdp 7 to win 7 on esxi

I am trying to RDP from a Windows 7 Professional dual monitor physical machine to a Windows 7 Professional VM hosted on esxi 4.0. I can get the spanning option to work to both monitors, but I have tried 3 different methods of connecting but have not…
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Remote Desktop Authentication without NTLM - How to Configure from non-Windows clients?

Background This has been bugging me for quite a while (and no amount of internet searching has amounted to a decent solution), so I'm hoping someone can offer some sage advice. When I try and start a Remote Desktop session from a Mac to a Windows…
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RDP Not Working For New Users (The connection was denied because the user is not authorized for remote login)

New users are not allowed to RDP even though they have the same permissions as existing users. The only work around is to go to System Properties > Remote > Remote Desktop> Select Users and add the users there. This is not very scale-able as we have…
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The remote computer requires NLA

While trying to remote into a computer, I originally got a message stating that the clock wasn't in sync with the server time (or something like that... I forget the exact message and cannot reproduce now). Now I am getting a different message: "The…
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RDP file setting: "use redirection server name"

Can anybody offer an explanation for the "use redirection server name" setting in an RDP file? It can be set as either: use redirection server name:i:1 or use redirection server name:i:0 I have a small number of clients for whom connections via an…
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RDP shadowing 2012R2 on custom RDP port

I am attempting to shadow existing RDP sessions on Windows 2012 R2 without RDS installed on a custom (not standard 3389) rdp port. This describes how to shadow RDP in windows 2012 R2. However, when I attempt to do this using for example: mstsc…
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