Accessing Win2000 Server Terminal Services from XP Home Edition

[John Gilchrist]

In the past, I was able to access Windows 2000 Server Terminal Services over
the internet from my XP Home Edition home computer running Terminal
Services client. More recently, I am "unable to connect - "the remote
computer disconnected the sessions due to an error in the licensing
protocol". I tried both Remote Desktop client and Terminal Services
client - same message.

Today, I was able to connect successfully from a XP-Professional remote
computer, running either remote desktop or terminal services client - both
worked.

Is there some new restriction which allows access to Windows 2000 server
terminal services only from XP Professional computers??

Thanks,
John

 

[Sooner Al [MVP]]

I would post this to the microsoft.public.windows.terminal_services news
group...

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[beb]

Probably not. There might be a corruption in XP home registry or some type
of misconfigured settings,dns etc. on the client. Check the connection
settings and if they are correct and you can ping the server IP address from
the client, then try deleting this sub key
HKEY_local_machine\software\microsoft\mslicensing and restarting your
machine. Remember to back up the registry key by exporting it first.