Remote Desktop to Remote Desktop

[Otto Porter]

I recentlly connected to my work pc (remote desktop)
from my home thru a company VPN.

While connected to the work pc I used RemoteDesktop
to connect to a 2nd machine on the company network.

When I closed the connection to what I thought was
the 2nd machine, I was dropped right back to my
home pc without being returned to my work-pc
desktop, which actually opened the session to
the 2nd machine.

Even logging back in to my work pc brought
me back to the session to the 2nd machine.
I had to 'restart' the 2nd machine to get the
connection broken between it and my
work pc.

Is there a more elegant way to handle
this situation, or is this somthing which
just should not be done (opening
remote sessions from a remote session)?

thanks, Otto Porter

 

[Bill Sanderson]

No--doing that is just fine--I do it every day.

Usually, I connect to a server in a small office, and then use RDP from
there to connect to individual workstations.

The trick, if you are working full-screen, is managing the "pins" on the
connection bar at the top of the screen. That bar also shows the name of
the machine you are connected to--i.e. which one will be disconnected if you
hit the X.

If the top-level connection bar is pinned, the secondary connection will be
underneath it. Click on the pin on the top-level bar to let it slide out of
the way, so that you can see the second one.

Where this gets difficult is if BOTH are unpinned! I haven't figured out
any good way to get the secondary one down and pinned again, without the
primary one also coming down and getting in the way.

Anyway- use the connection bar at the top of the screen, and pin and unpin
as needed, so you can tell what is happening.

RDP is so much like "being there" that it is very easy to forget in the
absence of that connection bar, that you are in a remote session.

 

[Fortress]

how about remote desktop keyboard shortcut ?

how can i send it to secondary connection ?

 

[Otto Porter]

The trick, if you are working full-screen, is managing the "pins" on the
connection bar at the top of the screen. That bar also shows the name of
the machine you are connected to--i.e. which one will be disconnected if you
hit the X.

Bill,

Thanks for the reply. This is great info. It will keep me out of trouble.

Otto

 

[Bill Sanderson]

I'm not sure what you mean.

There are a couple of ways of dealing with the secondary connection. One
way is to use a VPN connection to the remote LAN, and then do direct RDP
connections to all of the individual hosts.

You can save .RDP files for each host locally and do this.

In my case, I have a folder on the server in an office containing batch
files and an executable to do Wake-on-lan for individual machines, paired
with a .RDP file (result of save settings) to connect to that machine from
the server--and that's what I usually do.