Remote Desktop opens briefly then quits

[Doug Loyd]

I want to use Remote Desktop to connect to my tablet PC
from my desktop unit. I can connect (briefly) but before
the login screen even pops up, it disconnects. What's up?

 

[Doug Loyd]

A bit more info...

Everything's configured properly, the same as other
systems I use. The curious thing is that the Remote
Desktop window will open (briefly), and I can see the on-
screen keyboard from the TabletPC, but before I see the
normal login dialog, the Remote Desktop window just
closes. If I change the setting to full-screen mode, I
see the same thing (but full-screen of course). I know
I've seen a tip about this problem somewhere... thanks
for any assistance.

 

[Doug Loyd]

This problem is now fixed, due to help from Chris H. in
the TabletPC newsgroup. Thanks, Chris. Here's what I
learned/did.

The problem was that a third-party application (for a
smartcard reader that I didn't need anyway) had replaced
the standard Windows logon file (usually msgina.dll) with
something else that was interfering with Remote Desktop.
Chris suggested this KB article -
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-
us;300470&Product=winxp
and it provided the path to the solution. Uninstalling
the offending software did not fix the problem by itself
though, so I had to edit the registry (careful out
there!) to replace the default Gina setting in Winlogin
with msgina.dll, and now it all works just fine.