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Questions tagged [remote-desktop]

Software and/or protocols allowing a user to access the graphical desktop on a system from a remote computer. Common protocols are RDP from Microsoft, and RFB (used by VNC).

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Remote desktop client: how to enlarge history list?

Anyone knows the setting (in registry perhaps) to enlarge the history list of the remote desktop client? Thanks!
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Activate remote desktop

We switched to home office work because of quarantine and most users connect to RD over Windows RAS. Some Windows 7 and 10 desktops were used only locally, and RDP was not activated. Now we need to provide RD to all office computers. I can connect…
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Inexpensive Remote Assistance software?

Any recommendations for Remote Assistance software that does not require firewall modification for clients? To assist client with software problems and perform training, we currently use a tool called Remote Helpdesk to connect to their computers…
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Remote desktop sessions - Unwanted automatic log off after period of time

I'm having an issue whenever I connect to any of our servers via RDP - After a certain period of time, it seems to close these sessions, closing all the applications i had open etc... This is particularly annoying if I am running a long process -…
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Windows Server 2016 - Can't RDP with one specific user

This is a new Windows 2016 server. We have three users on it and two of them are able to login without issue. The third one, no matter what we've tried (except rebooting; trying to avoid that) is not able to login. He keeps getting this error: The…
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Delegate session management on RemoteApp 2012

We've built a rather large RemoteApp environment on 2012 R2, fully patched. Everything is working fine, so now comes the time to offshore and delegate tasks to the first line team. We would like to be able to have our first line guys manage the…
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Login error with Remote Desktop to Ubuntu server

I use Ubuntu Cloud Guest account and install xrdp (sudo apt-get install xrdp) then I use Remote Desktop Connection of Windows to remote it. But on login step I always get this error after I enter username and password even though I did enter them…
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Remote Desktop Network Level Authentication Not Supported

I'm running Windows XP Professional SP3 x86, trying to connect to a system with Windows 7 Ultimate SP1 x64. Recently, I updated the Remote Desktop Connection software on the XP system in hopes of using Network Level Authentication (NLA) for my…
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Detect who is logged on to remote Windows machines

How do you find out who is logged on to remote windows machines? I'm using psloggedon at the moment, but it gives me only one computer at a time. psloggeon \\172.21.0.5 Is there a better way how to scan a whole subnet ? Preferably some GUI…
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Why aren't RemoteApp icons showing up

I have a Windows 2008 R2 server running RDS. I have installed and configured RemoteApp to publish applications with RDS Web Access. When I browse to https://servernname.domain.local/RDWeb I can log in and get to the RemoteApp Programs tab, but there…
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Remote Desktop Mobile mangles barcodes coming from scanner

We have an application here using handhelds to scan barcodes. These handhelds are actually making a remote desktop session towards a server where the application runs. Works fine. Now we have bought some new Motorola MC55's running 'Windows Mobile…
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Windows Events for Remote Desktop logon failure

According to ref the logon types 10 and 3 in windows events are represnting Logon Type 10 = RemoteInteractive Logon & Logon Type 3 = Network Logon But when i tried to connect a Windows machine via "Remote Desktop Connection" with a wrong username…
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Using Administrator Credentials to login as a User to Their Desktop

Other than memorizing and documenting each user's credentials, is there way that I can use the Windows Domain Administrator credentials to login to a workstation-user's desktop as if I were them? I think this is called impersonation, but my searches…
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Remote desktop certificate error - how to connect anyways?

I have a remote server that I can only access through RDP. It uses a proper SSL certificate from godaddy for RDP, not a self signed one. The server is 2008R2, and I believe is set to the default of requiring network level authentication. …
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How to specify to MSTSC which session to connect to?

I'm working on a project where I must do almost all of my work on a remote desktop. I also have to frequently connect and disconnect from the remote desktop because of the network configuration. Sometimes, when I disconnect my session and then…
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