Remote Desktop Connection & file transfers

[Steve N.]

We use Remote Desktop connection to a Win2K3 server from a WinXP Pro
box. In Help and Support it says in order to transfer files from the
local box to the remote to open My Computer on the remote computer and
the local box's drives should show up there during the remote session
but they don't. I'm not real familiar with Remote Desktop yet. Any ideas?

Steve

 

[Pegasus \(MVP\)]

We use Remote Desktop connection to a Win2K3 server from a WinXP Pro
box. In Help and Support it says in order to transfer files from the
local box to the remote to open My Computer on the remote computer and
the local box's drives should show up there during the remote session
but they don't. I'm not real familiar with Remote Desktop yet. Any ideas?

Steve

Try this on the remote PC:
- Click Start / Run
- Type mstsc.exe
- Under the General tab, enter the name or IP address of the host.
- Under the Local Resources tab, place the appropriate tick marks.

Note that local drives will only be visible on Win2003 servers,
not on Win2000 servers.

 

[Steve N.]

Try this on the remote PC:
- Click Start / Run
- Type mstsc.exe
- Under the General tab, enter the name or IP address of the host.
- Under the Local Resources tab, place the appropriate tick marks.

Note that local drives will only be visible on Win2003 servers,
not on Win2000 servers.

Thank you Pegasus. I will check it out tomorrow.

Steve

 

[Steve N.]

Try this on the remote PC:
- Click Start / Run
- Type mstsc.exe
- Under the General tab, enter the name or IP address of the host.
- Under the Local Resources tab, place the appropriate tick marks.

Note that local drives will only be visible on Win2003 servers,
not on Win2000 servers.

That appears to attempt to make a remote desktop connection back to my
local PC. Not really what we had in mind.

Steve

 

[Pegasus \(MVP\)]

That appears to attempt to make a remote desktop connection back to my
local PC. Not really what we had in mind.

Steve

In this case I suggest you rephrase your requirements. For better
understanding, let's call the server machine the "Host", and the
remote machine the "Client". The host runs the Terminal Server
service, and the client runs mstsc.exe (Microsoft's Remote Desktop
program). When you run mstsc.exe on the Client then you start a
Remote Desktop session on the Host.

Now what exactly are you trying to achieve?

 

[Steve N.]

In this case I suggest you rephrase your requirements. For better
understanding, let's call the server machine the "Host", and the
remote machine the "Client". The host runs the Terminal Server
service, and the client runs mstsc.exe (Microsoft's Remote Desktop
program). When you run mstsc.exe on the Client then you start a
Remote Desktop session on the Host.

Now what exactly are you trying to achieve?

I thought I was pretty clear, but ok. We want to transfer a file from
the client (WinXP Pro) to the host (Win2K3 server) using Remote Desktop
on the client.

I found another solution using UltraVNC which works well, but I'm still
curious how to accomplish the same thing using Remote Desktop. Help &
Support makes no mention of needing to run Terminal Service on the host.

Thanks.

Steve

 

[Pegasus \(MVP\)]

I thought I was pretty clear, but ok. We want to transfer a file from
the client (WinXP Pro) to the host (Win2K3 server) using Remote Desktop
on the client.

I found another solution using UltraVNC which works well, but I'm still
curious how to accomplish the same thing using Remote Desktop. Help &
Support makes no mention of needing to run Terminal Service on the host.

Thanks.

Steve

Remote Desktop is based on the host running the Terminal Server
service. Stop the service and you will find that you can no longer
run RDP sessions!

In my previous reply I suggested a way to make client drives
visible during an RDP session. You then wrote "That appears to
attempt to make a remote desktop connection back to my
local PC. Not really what we had in mind." I suppose you can
express it like this. To me it means that I can transfer files in
either direction while an RDP session is active, from within this
RDP session. I thought that this was what you were after but
perhaps I'm mistaken.

 

[Steve N.]

Remote Desktop is based on the host running the Terminal Server
service. Stop the service and you will find that you can no longer
run RDP sessions!

Ok, understood.

In my previous reply I suggested a way to make client drives
visible during an RDP session. You then wrote "That appears to
attempt to make a remote desktop connection back to my
local PC. Not really what we had in mind." I suppose you can
express it like this. To me it means that I can transfer files in
either direction while an RDP session is active, from within this
RDP session. I thought that this was what you were after but
perhaps I'm mistaken.

No you are not mistaken. When I initiated a RDP from the host back to
the client I was still unable to see drives from either machine on the
other and it seemed to want to use a Windows networking share that did
not exist when I poked around at the settings you gave. I'll have to
look into it further when I return to work on Monday.

Thanks again Pegasus. Bear in mind this is not a critical issue as I've
found another solution but I still would like to figure this out using RDP.

Steve