concurrent remote desktop sessions in Windows XP

[David Sherman]

I have a client to wants to allow concurrent remote desktop sessions
using Windows XP Pro (Service pack 2).

Using this guide http://sig9.com/articles/concurrent-remote-desktop
I was able to get 5 users connected on this past Friday.
Today, we have had to remote the machine the XP machine to get users
connection. But we are still getting conenction refusal's on users
that have been setup.

Basically I need a sure way to allow up to 7 users to connect to a
Windows XP machine to run an accounting package.

We want to go through Remote Desktop to connect. all these Windows XP
machines.

thanks

 

[Shenan Stanley]

I have a client to wants to allow concurrent remote desktop sessions
using Windows XP Pro (Service pack 2).

Using this guide http://sig9.com/articles/concurrent-remote-desktop
I was able to get 5 users connected on this past Friday.
Today, we have had to remote the machine the XP machine to get users
connection. But we are still getting conenction refusal's on users
that have been setup.

Basically I need a sure way to allow up to 7 users to connect to a
Windows XP machine to run an accounting package.

We want to go through Remote Desktop to connect. all these Windows
XP machines.

Not supported natively.
That's why you had to use the hack you found to get it to work.
Windows XP is not a server class OS - treat it at such at your own peril.

 

[Patrick Keenan]

I have a client to wants to allow concurrent remote desktop sessions
using Windows XP Pro (Service pack 2).

Using this guide http://sig9.com/articles/concurrent-remote-desktop
I was able to get 5 users connected on this past Friday.
Today, we have had to remote the machine the XP machine to get users
connection. But we are still getting conenction refusal's on users
that have been setup.

Basically I need a sure way to allow up to 7 users to connect to a
Windows XP machine to run an accounting package.

We want to go through Remote Desktop to connect. all these Windows XP
machines.

thanks

If you want to do that reliably, you need to put the accounting package on a
server version of the OS, and purchase appropriate licenses. It isn't
supported in XP Pro.

The good news is that it's very easy to set it up in Server 2003, and the
users, who are used to RDP, don't have to learn much that's new.

HTH
-pk

 

[David Sherman]

Small Business Server 2003 only supports RDP sessions.