users with multiple sessions

[John]

Is it possible for a user logging into a terminal server
to have more than one session at a time. What is happening
is that whenever anyone logs into the terminal server
(administrator included) and someone else logs in as the
same user from a differnt terminal the second user takes
over the session of the first user. Also when the session
is taken over there is no indictation that the "new" user
is taking over an existing session. I am not certain if
the "old" user is still connected or not but I don't
belive so. Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance for any help,
John

 

[Huei Wang [MSFT]]

The old user is now disconnect and its session is now 'taken' by new user,
to allos a user to have more than one session, on Windows 2003, you can use
Terminal Services Configuration to set "Restrict each user to one session"
under "Server Settigns". or set "Restrict Terminal Services users to a
single remote session" under group policy "Local Computer Policy" ->
Computer Configuration -> Administrative Template -> Windows Components ->
Terminal Service,

 

[John]

Thank you Huei for your response. I think that is what I
am looking for. I do have one question though, what
happens if a user disconnects their session and they want
to return to it. Are they prompted to resume the existing
session or create a new session.

Thanks,
John

 

[Huei Wang [MSFT]]

If user has only one disconnected session, he/she will get reconnect to the
disconnected session, if there is more than one, a dialog will shows up and
let user choose.