Questions tagged [remote-desktop]
Software and/or protocols allowing a user to access the graphical desktop on a system from a remote computer. Common protocols are RDP from Microsoft, and RFB (used by VNC).
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How to send ctrl+alt+del using Remote Desktop?
How can I send ctrl+alt+del to a remote computer over Remote Desktop?
For example, if I wanted to change the local admin password on a remote PC using a Remote Desktop connection, it would be helpful ...
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What port should I open to allow remote desktop?
What port(s) should I open/NAT to allow me to use Remote Desktop?
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Your system administrator does not allow the use of saved credentials to log on to the remote computer
At our office, all of our Windows 7 Clients get this error message when we try and RDP to a remote Windows 2008 Server outside of the office:
Your system administrator does not allow the user of ...
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How to allow active directory users to remote desktop in?
This is my first time setting up or even using active directory.
I set it up, and added the computers(Actually VMs in Hyper V) to the active directory, and if if I use hyper-V to connect to the VMs, ...
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This could be due to CredSSP encryption oracle remediation - RDP to Windows 10 pro host
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Following Windows security updates in May 2018, when attempting to RDP to a Windows 10 Pro workstation the following error message is displayed after successfully entering user credentials:
An ...
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how do I perform a file transfer using remote desktop on windows 10?
I have been using remote desktop for a number years, on a number of versions of windows, most recently 8.1.
Yesterday I upgraded to 10. I had to download Remote Desktop from the Windows Store. Easy ...
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How to stop Remote Desktop from closing my session due to inactivity?
I'm connecting from a windows vista desktop to a server running windows server 2003. I'm using Remote Desktop and I'm running some very long running processes on the remote server. My problem is that ...
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What alternatives to VNC are there for Linux? [closed]
Are there (preferably free) alternatives to VNC on Linux?
Is there different remote desktop technologies for Linux or is it all based around VNC?
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Thanks symcbean for your comment, good point. ...
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How to disable RDP access for Administrator
We need to disallow the domain Administrator account to access a server directly via RDP. Our policy is to log on as regular user and then use Run As Admin functionallity. How can we set this up?
The ...
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How can I work around problems with certificate configuration in Remote Desktop Services?
I am setting up a Remote Desktop Services farm, and am having trouble configuring certificates for it to use. A demonstration of the problem I'm seeing can be found in Step #4.
At this point I am ...
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RDP file with embedded password asks for password
I've created one RDP file
full address:s:10.20.30.40
username:s:myuser
password:s:mypassword
domain:s:mydomain
When I open this file it still asks me for the password. What can I do to tell RDP ...
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Increase number of allowed remote desktop connections
Windows Server 2003 allows 2 non-console and one console remote desktop connections. Is there a way to increase the number of non-console sessions allowed?
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Logging in as the same user multiple times in Remote Desktop Windows Server 2008
Quick question:
I have a situation where I need to let multiple people on different PCs log into one server 2008 machine as administrator simultaneously over remote desktop. I have the CALs for it, it'...
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Alternative Remote Desktop Software
What are good alternatives to the Windows builtin remote desktop client?
I have tried Terminals and it is great but I've have run into numerous bugs with the latest release (currently 1.7e). Can ...
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Remote Desktop from Linux to Computer that Requires Network Level Authentication
Is there a way to use rdesktop or another Linux client to connect to a server that requires Network Level Authentication?
From Windows Server 2008 R2 -- Control Panel -- System And Security -- System ...
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