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Terminal Services Client.... how to connect to Console?!

hi i need to connect to the console of Windows Server 2003... because every time i connect there is two sessions are ON and eat the RAM
thanx

can you provide any more info?
personally I have created an internet connection and a work connection (vpn) in the exceptions list I've added *.au.mydomain.com
fire up terminal and connect to
servername.au.mydomain.com
all works like a dream (except for the fact you can't run full screen )

I think what is asked for here is something simular to mstsc /console on the desktop. As far as i know it is possible.
Regards,
Allan Boegild Pedersen
www.pda-faq.com (Now 47 howtos to improve you daily pocket pc use)

I think what is asked for here is something simular to mstsc /console on the desktop. As far as i know it is possible.
Regards,
Allan Boegild Pedersen
www.pda-faq.com (Now 47 howtos to improve you daily pocket pc use)

abp said:
I think what is asked for here is something simular to mstsc /console on the desktop. As far as i know it is possible.
Regards,
Allan Boegild Pedersen
www.pda-faq.com (Now 47 howtos to improve you daily pocket pc use)
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True ... that what i was talking about thanks for making it clear

Having the same question..
Let me try to explain
I have a windows 2003 server at home,
this is also my personal computer, this means it has a nice screen, keyboard, mouse and some nice games on it.
When i`m on a job i connect on my laptop to my ACTIVE console on my home computer, this means i change the shortcut to "remote desktop" and add "/console" to it. Now when i connect to my home server it will take over the active console.
Does anybody know if this is possible on my qtek 9000 terminal services client???
Regards

I am also looking for a solution to this please. I leave one of my servers logged on and need to access the desktop whilst out and about. On a PC i just use remote desktop client with the /console option, but have been unable to find a way of doing this with a pocketpc. Alternatively any suggestions on good fast remote desktop software that works as well as remote desktop over gprs.
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Just before i hit send on this post I thought I would try and find a different approach. What I have found is a workaround that at least lets me do what I need until someone can suggest a way of connecting directly to the console.
You can shadow a terminal server session from another session, including the console. So.... connect to your server using the terminal server client, this will start a brand new remote dekstop. Go to the command prompt and type
shadow 0
This will then connect you to the console. For this to work you have to make sure that you enable permissions for the shadowing to take place. Do as outlined in the following article.
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;278845
look for the bit right at the end that says
To configure the Windows Server 2003-based server to permit remote control, follow these steps:
although change step 7
7. In the Options box, click Full Control with users' permission, and then click OK.
Change it to without users permission otherwise it will sit there waiting for a response on the console

Setting up VNC or Remote Desktop

I've set up LogMeIn, but it's left me dissatisfied. I don't like the fact that it's website based, and it's a little slow for my tastes.
I've attempted VNC and Remote Desktop but, sadly, it's a little over my head. I'm by no means a noobie, but I've never dabbled in remote desktop type work before.
Is there a simple tutorial for setting up VNC or Remote Desktop clients for the Wizard? I could really use one. I've been trying to search for it for a few days, and I turned up absolute zilch.
Thanks!

both VNC and remote desktop would need to be enabled on your workstation / server / computer and make sure that either the required ports for VNC (port 5900+) and Remote Desktop Connection (port 3389) and open your firewall or the windows firewall is turned off.
if you are trying to use VNC / RDP, using your GPRS/EDGE connection then there's more tweaking which needs to be done ... this would entail you to go to your router/firewall and open ports 5900 (VNC) and 3389 (Terminal Services / Remote Desktop Connection) and point these ports to the right IP Address (which would be the IP address of your workstation).
if you have any questions about remote access just email me back ... i use my XDA Exec, Qtek 8500 and all the other PDA's i have to access my network at the office as well as at my clients all the time ... both through VNC and through Remote Desktop Connection ....

what program do you need on the wizard to do remote desktop?
right now i can remote desktop to my work computer from my laptop at home. is it similar? thank you.

There should be a remote desktop client already installed on your Wizard. Look in the Programs folder for "Terminal Services Client". It works pretty much the same as it does on big Windows.

As dumb as this is, I really need a step by step to help me out on this subject.
I'm unsure what is needed to get the Remote Desktop Client working. I have XP Pro. I have a "Remote" section under my home computers system properties. However, the one tutorial I could find asked me to go into Add/Remove Windows Devices and apply some sort of setting there. Upon doing so, I was asked to insert my Windows XP CD which . . . I don't have.
If I don't need that CD, I am open to doing either Remote Desktop or VNC. Whichever is preferable, I guess. I don't know which is more full-featured, which one is quicker, etc.
So I need help getting started. What do I do?

Hey Dr.Other
Okay here is a step by step to enable remote desktop on your computer ( much better then VNC in my book but I am sure others may disagree..so in the end its personal prefrence...I just like RD (remote desktop) better cause I can stream music if I wanted and its also encrypted (I think I read that some where) any way here it is for remote desktop.
Guessing you are useing Windows XP Pro
Right Click on MY COMPUTER ( on your desktop)
From the menu that opens up Click (Left click) on PROPERTIES
You will see a few tabs in a window called System Properties
Click on the REMOTEtab
Check the Box under the Remote desktop area that say ALL USEERS TO CONNECT REMOTELY TO THIS COMPUTER (its not in caps)
Next click on Select Remote User and click ADD
TYpe in the users name (what ever name you use to login with)
Hit Okay till your back to your desktop
Phone:
Start\Programs\Terminal services Client
under servers type in the IP address of your computer ( Hint try it locally 1st if you have wifi in your house and then click connect) its a bit difficult to naviagate and the colors are not the best ( which leads me toa question ...look at the bottem for the Q ) but it will do...I have hcked email looked at my fav places for a book name I had bookmarked but forgot etc. its really cumbersome but in teh end it may get the job done. Though Fair warning your icons and stuff will be bunched up on your desktop computer once you RD from your Phone
RD to your phone..... What ? can you remote desktop to your phone ?
I think so...if you enable terminal service port on the device you maybe able to connect to it from your computer ...but I am still trying to figure that one out
Question for every one: IS it possible to get better colors when connecting to your home computer via terminal services on your phone ? ...they look like 256 colors (eww)

geekserver said:
Question for every one: IS it possible to get better colors when connecting to your home computer via terminal services on your phone ? ...they look like 256 colors (eww)
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Even if you could it would slow the process down so much it wouldnt be worth it. I wouldnt even have a background on as it slows to a crawl.

i've looked everywhere, seriously. -remote desktop

any detailed how to guide?, i can do it, i'm fairly tech savvy, so i just need to kneed out a few things. maybe if you caould start from the beginning and i can see where i went wrong.
logmein.com works, but i want something more personal, just bewtween the computer and my phone. somerthing that looks good and scales full screen preferably.
please guys?, point me in the right direction.. all the posts just keep saying to search and there's lots of info, but there's no step by step guide.
thanks guys!

ok i got it going.
first go to the computer you want to connect to and go to control panel / system
click on remote, enable remote users
go to start menu, run. type cmd
in command write "ipconfig /all"
take note of your ip address
on your phone go to remote desktop,
computer = your ip address
username = (go to startmenu, control panel, user accounts) use one of those names.
password = blank unless you have a password.
domain = i left blank.
connect full color unless it doesnt work for you
if you can connect and you get a password error
type the error you get inot google and you should get a fix as your first link.
try that.
blam, remote desktop, it's awesome.

Nice how-to...
this is the most succinct tutorial on how to do this that I've seen. I'm still having trouble, though. I get the "Cannot connect. Likely reason are: 1 the remote comupter is not set up for this. 2. Reached the maximum number of connections. 3. A network error occurred while connecting."
I have set up the XP PC, & taken down all firewalls. I only have one user account and it has a password. I've even tried using Hamachi with one of their VPN ip addresses (awesome and free for pc2pc). I 've combed trhough my router settings too, and tried to clear everything there, too. I can RD from an XP laptop, so ti seems to be something on the unit, to me. I've also setup file sharing w/ Total Commander (it's served my purposes amply).
I really have googled & googled & googled. If anyone has any idea what is going on, I'd be grateful for some ideas.

Have you enabled the RDP on the host computer?
Right click my computer
Properties
Remote
Then enable allow user to connect remotely.

Will only work on XP Pro, or Vista if you choose to allow older clients which they scaremonger you against by saying it's less secure.

Danke!
I've been scared away from Vista for the usual "new" OS reasons, but perhaps it's getting to be time for me to haul my old conservative back-end into the modern world.
Thanks so much for taking the time!
(and to Biohead: yes, I followed the instructions I lauded so vehemently.... ???)

you're running vista?
and you haven't been able to connect still, right?
sorry i could walk you through xp, but man vista sucks, i wouldn't touch it with a 10 foot pole.

i'm setting up remote desktop on my iphone
hahaha totally referred to this guide

and it sucks, so i'm sticking with vnc
man, i miss my exec/universal

dutchschultz said:
any detailed how to guide?, i can do it, i'm fairly tech savvy, so i just need to kneed out a few things. maybe if you caould start from the beginning and i can see where i went wrong.
logmein.com works, but i want something more personal, just bewtween the computer and my phone. somerthing that looks good and scales full screen preferably.
please guys?, point me in the right direction.. all the posts just keep saying to search and there's lots of info, but there's no step by step guide.
thanks guys!
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Hope this helps
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=366312
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=294524

orb3000 said:
Hope this helps
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=366312
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=294524
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you, my friend, are awesome

A possible solution for those of us on T-Mobile's standard web n walk
Sorry to resurrect this thread, but I thought I'd post my experiences here in case anyone else (like me) searches for a solution to enabling RDP on T-Mobile (UK at least).
I was having the same problem with remote desktop, it saying that the server was not available. I phoned up T-Mobile's helpdesk as recommended here and after getting past first line support (who didn't know what remote desktop was, and tried sending new connection settings to my phone to resolve the issue) I got through to someone who knew what they were talking about. Turns out that I'm on T-Mobile's "basic" or "handset-only" web-n-walk package, and it's not possible to use RDP on this. I assume they block the relevant ports. They told me that I could pay an extra fiver a month to upgrade to a version of web-n-walk which can handle RDP.
Well I told them I would think about it, but instead tried to find a way around it as the one or two times I need to use RDP are certainly not worth a fiver a month. My solution is probably only suitable for the more techy of us, but without much work and with no prior experience I managed to set up a SSH tunnel using FreeSSHd as a server running on my windows server (although a normal windows box should work fine - http://www.freesshd.com/) and zaTunnel as a client on my phone (http://www.zatelnet.com/zatunnel/main.php). Both programs are free.
Basically my phone takes all RDP connections and tunnels them over SSH to my windows server, which then turns them back into RDP connections. T-Mobile have no idea I'm using RDP, and if they block the SSH port in the future I can always change FreeSSHd to run on port 80 (for web). This will also work for other protocols T-Mobile might be blocking (FTP springs to mind).
Just thought I'd post this in case anyone was in my situation of needing RDP on their standard web'n'walk.
Edit Sorry posted this in the wrong thread! Will leave this post up however just in case someone finds it useful

echolock
Many thanks for the above have been searching everywhere for a fix to this. I am the same as you T Mobile (UK) and can't connect.
Could you give some additional advice as how you got the RDP to work.
For the record I can connect by Wi-Fi and by using a PAYG sim from a different carrier. However, I am on a contract with T Mobile and don't want to carry a different sim just to use the RDP.
I have installed both apps. I can make a connection from zaTunnel on Port SSH:24 to the freeSSHD server (SSH - listening on port 24). Other than adding a User and changing the default port to 24 there are no other changes I have made in freeSSHD.
Under the connections tab in zaTunnel I have left Network: Automatic with the other settings relevant to make a connection.
Under the ports tab of zaTunnel I have
LP> 3389,
IP/URL . IP of the desktop I want to connect to of 192.168.1.10
>RP 3389
When I the start the Remote Desktop app under my Windows Mobile 6.1 it indicates connecting the fails as before.
Also forgot to mention freeSSHD is running on the desktop I want to connect to.

Sure thing.
When you run Remote Desktop under Windows Mobile, make sure you connect to "localhost" NOT to the IP of the desktop you want to connect to.
Your other settings seem correct to me.
To attempt to explain a little, basically what happens is as follows. For simplicity's sake I will have three machines, your phone, your SSH server and your RDP server (although the latter two can be the same).
On your phone:
1) Remote Desktop connects to localhost on port 3389.
2) zaTunnel is listening on localhost on port 3389. It echos all commands sent to this port out on port 22 over your cellular connection to your SSH server, also providing details of your RDP server and port.
On your SSH server:
3) FreeSSHd receives the commands sent over port 22 and is told by zaTunnel to convert them to commands sent to your RDP server using port 3389.
On your RDP server:
4) Remote Desktop receives a normal RDP request over the normal port from your SSH server.
5) Responses are sent to your SSH server.
On your SSH server:
6) FreeSSHd receives the RDP responses, and sends them back to your phone over port 22.
On your phone:
7) zaTunnel converts the commands sent over port 22 back into RDP commands sent over port 3389.
8) Remote desktop receives a response from zaTunnel and thinks it's connected directly to an RDP server on localhost. In actuality it's connected to your RDP server using an SSH tunnel provided by zaTunnel and FreeSSHd.
Hope this makes sense, I'm not very good at explaining this!

Ah found another problem. The IP of your desktop you say is 192.168.1.10 - this is a local IP address so will only work on your local network.
Go to a website like http://whatismyipaddress.com/ from the machine you run SSHd on to find out what your current "external" IP address is. Bear in mind that most home broadband connections have a "dynamic" address which is allocated to you and might change from time to time - you can always use something like http://www.dyndns.com/services/dns/dyndns/ to set yourself up with a static hostname, and run a program on your machine which updates your hostname with the correct IP address every time it changes. Some routers have this functionality built in.

Thanks for the quick response and explanation.
Between posting and reading your reply I had worked out the RDP app needs the localhost or the IP 127.0.0.1.
I had come back here to post, so others would know in future.
Your other point you raised about the desktop IP. I have used this only in the ports tab on zaTunnel. The connection tab has a proper mydomainname.com address. (Provides email and a webmail interface).
Anyway, can connect now and thank you again in solving this for me. (If your in Leeds I will buy you a beer).

Ah yeah the 192.* address would work on the ports tab, fair enough. Might be worth pointing out if others read this that this is only the case if the machine you're trying to RDP to is on the same local network (or the same machine) as the machine you have FreeSSHd running on.
But good to hear you got it working Now hopefully T-Mobile won't cotton-on and decide to block port 22 too...

File Sharing over a Network

Does anybody how i could access my Pocket PC from my PC over the network. I could do it vice versa through Resco but i can't do Pocket PC from PC nor Pocket PC to Pocket PC. Any ideas? I would like it to happen just how the PC does it, with no major add-ons. I don't want to have to deal with VNC, FTP, etc. So if you know, i'd really like to know the answer. Thanks

I was looking for the same thing and haven't been able to find anything.
(I know you said u didn't want to use FTP)
So far the only thing I have been able to find for this is an FTP solution.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=351882
I can access the local network from the phone, but apparently there is no SMB server available for Wm6

Why can't you just use the explorer function of ActiveSync?

Jadel said:
Why can't you just use the explorer function of ActiveSync?
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There are multiple reasons for wanting to access your device from the network. I myself am using multiple machines and would like to drag and drop files from my phone without having to get a bluetooth dongle and install active sync on every one of those machines.
If anyone has setup a smb server for wm6 i'd love to know, also if anyone has any other recommendations for a good ftp server that mocha one doesn't run in the background properly and the bottom toolbar for it stays on my today screen.

Not exactly what you're after, but I've seen a web server for WinMo around somewhere...
Or maybe something along the lines of a VNC client?

Yea, there are reasons for the networking thing. I have several devices on the network and i would life to get a NAS device. I don't want to go to the trouble of setting up ftp/vnc. Mapping the device using Resco works GREAT. For some reason, my laptop can't find my Tilt when i search for devices on the network and i was thinking maybe it was because it didn't have the same workgroup name?

useful for sure
Assuming you're on the LAN with WiFi, what happens when you port-scan your device's IP?

Not sure what you mean by port-scan but when i go to file explorer on my laptop and type \\ip of tilt, it gives me some error. I'm really trying to look into this and most advice is using vnc and another program which i don't want.

kareem9nba said:
Not sure what you mean by port-scan but when i go to file explorer on my laptop and type \\ip of tilt, it gives me some error. I'm really trying to look into this and most advice is using vnc and another program which i don't want.
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I don't think you're understanding when i said wm6 doesn't have a SMB server running.
Basically, it isn't running the microsoft networking services to access the file shares. You wont get it to work unless you get some sort of SMB daemon(server) for the phone, which to my knowledge doesn't exist.
look up SMB in wikipedia and u will understand what im talking about.

If using Resco to map shares, will you be able to play media (music, movies) over the wlan then, or will it not be fast enough?
I'm assuming that mediaplayer in wm6 won't have a problem playing from shares...or am I wrong?
/Pilot1

I kind of got this resolved. Not the way i really wanted it, but now i use Pocket Controller Enterprise and it does this. Really nice features, i could connect to anybody in the world, just need their host name.

Doesn't the desktop version of total commander do this? The only problem is the desktop version isn't free...

Orb speed on HD

For those that use Orb to stream media to their phones, what is the maximum.speed you have been able to stream? Using the speed test, I get 450kb/s...is this due to my internet connection or the phone?
If you do not use orb...what other program do you use to connect to your pc?
I have a dynamic ip address, and have yet to find a way to connect via remote desktop...I have gotten answers, but they're like "just use this" with little to no explanation on how to go about connecting...

telegraph0000 said:
For those that use Orb to stream media to their phones, what is the maximum.speed you have been able to stream? Using the speed test, I get 450kb/s...is this due to my internet connection or the phone?
If you do not use hulu...what other program do you use to connect to your pc?
I have a dynamic ip address, and have yet to find a way to connect via remote desktop...I have gotten answers, but they're like "just use this" with little to no explanation on how to go about connecting...
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Hey!
I use Orb very often and usually just set it to the standard 380 or whatever the highest speed is that can be selected on the webinterface. Never really bothered trying a faster setting because the increase in quality wasn't really noticable!
Referring to the dynamic issue problem you have: How is your internet connection managed? Do you use a router? And if yes, which one? The one I use supports DynDNS (www.dyndns.org): On the website, you create an account and a host domain (in the shape of: whatevernameyouwant.serveftp.net). Whenever you open that domain, DynDNS will forward you to your current IP if you configure your router to update the current IP at DynDNS whenever the IP changes! Works great! This way I can access my PC to do some remote desktoping whenever I'm not home by connecting to my domain!
You can take this whole thing one step further: Since you can only connect to your PC when it's awake, you usually have to leave the PC on, which kinda sucks. But there is a solution to this: You can let the PC go to sleep after a few minutes of not being used and wake it up again remotely by sending a WOL magic packet: http://www.dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php/WOL (Don't worry, it sounds complicated at first, but it's not that difficult... What happens is this: You configure your network card to wake the PC whenever a certain kind of data package arrives. Now, when I'm not at home, I just send that WOL package to my DynDNS-Domain, which forwards it to the current IP of my router, which in turn sends it to my network card and voila: My PC wakes up and is usable!)
EDIT: Don't hesitate to ask me any questions you might be having! And you definitely will have to be patient! Since there are so many elements involved, it takes quite alot of trial and error until you get it working!

I tried to use orb but i couldn't get it work.
I use internet explorer on my hd, and when clicking on the video to watch windows media player opens and got an error saying the video cannot open or something like that.
Orb works using a PC, so I assume it is good configured.
What is the way to see a video using orb in my HD?
thanks

hectorzin said:
I tried to use orb but i couldn't get it work.
I use internet explorer on my hd, and when clicking on the video to watch windows media player opens and got an error saying the video cannot open or something like that.
Orb works using a PC, so I assume it is good configured.
What is the way to see a video using orb in my HD?
thanks
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I use Opera Mini. When I click on a file, I'm asked if I want to save or open the file. I save it and open it using CorePlayer!
Maybe that's the issue: Are you using WMP? Maybe the windows media player doesn't support the streamed format! You could try changing the format in the settings of the Orb web interface!

I got to the part where I locate my routerv (using verizon fios' standard wireless router) and then an alphabetical list of programs and games comes up...yeah...stuck...

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I got to the part where I locate my routerv (using verizon fios' standard wireless router) and then an alphabetical list of programs and games comes up...yeah...stuck...
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I don't understand where you're stuck! Please tell me, what you did!

Okay...not necessarily stuck, just confused...page is asking me to choose a program to forward...
Screen with an alphabetized list of programs...which do I choose to connect to my pc?
Thank you once again...

telegraph0000 said:
Okay...not necessarily stuck, just confused...page is asking me to choose a program to forward...
Screen with an alphabetized list of programs...which do I choose to connect to my pc?
Thank you once again...
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I'm still confused... Where is this list from? Are you trying to enable port forwarding in your router?

yes. this is from here:
http://portforward.com/
selected Actiontec MI-424-WR

telegraph0000 said:
yes. this is from here:
http://portforward.com/
selected Actiontec MI-424-WR
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What are you trying to enable port forwarding for? For Orb? I don't think, you have to do anything for Orb to work!
EDIT: It seems I'm wrong, you might have to open a few ports... Check these articles: http://support.orb.com/kb/entry/118/ and http://support.orb.com/kb/entry/121/
Since I don't have your router, I have no clue how to manually set up port forwarding...

I guess my topic went another route when you mentioned the fact that you were able to connect your hd to your home pc through a dynamic ip address...
I am able to browse my pc through orb...
what I wanted to know.was how to be able to connect the HD through remote desktop. I created the account, but, unfortunately don't know what steps to fuether take threreafter to successfully create a remote desktop connection.
I see that remote desktop asks for "computer"--what ip address do I type in there?
got the user, password, and domain...

telegraph0000 said:
I guess my topic went another route when you mentioned the fact that you were able to connect your hd to your home pc through a dynamic ip address...
I am able to browse my pc through orb...
what I wanted to know.was how to be able to connect the HD through remote desktop. I created the account, but, unfortunately don't know what steps to fuether take threreafter to successfully create a remote desktop connection.
I see that remote desktop asks for "computer"--what ip address do I type in there?
got the user, password, and domain...
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Ah! Good to know that you're trying something completely different... That makes helping you alot easier!
To be able to use your PC with dynamic IP from outside you have to use DynDNS as mentioned above! Go here (http://www.dyndns.com/) and create an account. Then, create a domain (for example: telegraph0000.serveftp.net). Then, make sure DynDNS gets updated, whenever your IP changes. There are different ways to implement this: If your router supports it, you can have your router do the updating for you. If it doesn't, you can download little apps that take care of that (DynDNS offers its own client: http://www.dyndns.com/support/clients/).
When DynDNS works, you can just enter your domain into the "computer" field of Remote Desktop!
To be able to use Remote Desktop, you have to forward the TCP port 3389 in your firewall.

Try this one..you can download the programm,and it does the job for you...works great here.
http://www.simpleportforwarding.com/
regards stef