Setting up Remote Desktop

[pjf357]

God yes!!! make sure you manually turn on the data connection or you will be

[Technology1]

Originally Posted by pjf357

God yes!!! make sure you manually turn on the data connection or you will be

I'm still getting a error message "The remote computer has ended the connction".... What is the fix for this error message, because everything is still connected...?

[pjf357]

are you logged out on the remote computer?

[pjf357]

what os are you using

[avgas]

Originally Posted by Technology1

I'm still getting a error message "The remote computer has ended the connction".... What is the fix for this error message, because everything is still connected...?

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/898713

[stevenmh]

Originally Posted by pjf357

God yes!!! make sure you manually turn on the data connection or you will be

Oh, for the love. Is MS serious?

I was in a seminar all day today. Got boring. REAL boring. Guy reading building code verbatim. So I decided I'd give RDP 6.1 a spin for the first time.

I enter the info, hit connect, and it brings up my Vista x64 desktop. Lookin' sweet. I open up my email to look for an order confirmation. About 10 seconds later, RDP disconnects. I try to connect again, but I get an error message about my connection settings. I reboot, same thing. Google for the RDP6.1 cab, download, reinstall, same thing. Now I'm getting disgruntled because my email is open at home... auto checking POP3 every 5 minutes and deleting mail off the server... so I can't even check email on my Pro the rest of the day. Try Windows Remote Workplace or whatever it's called into our server, thinking I'll RDP from my work desktop into home and shut down mail, but neither Opera nor PIE will download the ActiveX component to do that through SBS2003. So I spend the rest of the day BITTER.

I come home, turn off the phone, turn on wi-fi, and it's working fine thru LAN and WAN. Try phone data again, same problem. Install RDP6.1 on my wife's Treo 800w, it works fine. So I google around and end up here in this thread.

So I try again, manually start a data connection through Comm Manager, and now it works fine.

Seriously. MS's RDP client can't auto start a data connection? Actually, it seems it can, but just sometimes refuses to. Based on what? Mood? I mean, it worked the first time I tried it, and then just stopped. And now, having gotten it to work, I disconnected and I let 10 seconds go by for the data connection to terminate (thru Advanced Config tool option), try it again, and this time it auto starts the data connection and stays connected, even if I just let it sit there and do nothing. I even let it sit long enough for the screen to turn off, turn it back on, and the data connection / RDP session is still uninterrupted.

So I went all day without email for no reason. Stupid random Windows nonsense.

[DaPeeps]

Originally Posted by stevenmh

Oh, for the love. Is MS serious?

I was in a seminar all day today. Got boring. REAL boring. Guy reading building code verbatim. So I decided I'd give RDP 6.1 a spin for the first time.

I enter the info, hit connect, and it brings up my Vista x64 desktop. Lookin' sweet. I open up my email to look for an order confirmation. About 10 seconds later, RDP disconnects. I try to connect again, but I get an error message about my connection settings. I reboot, same thing. Google for the RDP6.1 cab, download, reinstall, same thing. Now I'm getting disgruntled because my email is open at home... auto checking POP3 every 5 minutes and deleting mail off the server... so I can't even check email on my Pro the rest of the day. Try Windows Remote Workplace or whatever it's called into our server, thinking I'll RDP from my work desktop into home and shut down mail, but neither Opera nor PIE will download the ActiveX component to do that through SBS2003. So I spend the rest of the day BITTER.

I come home, turn off the phone, turn on wi-fi, and it's working fine thru LAN and WAN. Try phone data again, same problem. Install RDP6.1 on my wife's Treo 800w, it works fine. So I google around and end up here in this thread.

So I try again, manually start a data connection through Comm Manager, and now it works fine.

Seriously. MS's RDP client can't auto start a data connection? Actually, it seems it can, but just sometimes refuses to. Based on what? Mood? I mean, it worked the first time I tried it, and then just stopped. And now, having gotten it to work, I disconnected and I let 10 seconds go by for the data connection to terminate (thru Advanced Config tool option), try it again, and this time it auto starts the data connection and stays connected, even if I just let it sit there and do nothing. I even let it sit long enough for the screen to turn off, turn it back on, and the data connection / RDP session is still uninterrupted.

So I went all day without email for no reason. Stupid random Windows nonsense.

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This is why I don't use Remote Desktop. VNC is just all around easier in my opinion. Much cleaner and less obtrusive..and wonderful stability. I can control my PC with no problems at all...without the session timing out or lagging or anything. I truly do love it.

And to be honest, the less Microsoft products that you have to use the better.

[themaster]

Originally Posted by DaPeeps

^^
This is why I don't use Remote Desktop. VNC is just all around easier in my opinion. Much cleaner and less obtrusive..and wonderful stability. I can control my PC with no problems at all...without the session timing out or lagging or anything. I truly do love it.

And to be honest, the less Microsoft products that you have to use the better.

This is just plain ignorance.. first of Remote Desktop isn't a microsoft product.. unless microsoft bought CITRIX..

2ndly, the reason why people love citrix/terminal services.. is cause when you open a window it downloads the math of the window.. not taking a picture of it like VNC does.. this is no doubt cause citrix and microsoft have a very nice agreements in place for citrix to see the source code of windows..

Now what might be a bigger step of genuis to make Remote Desktop or VNC working better would be to have a built in DDNS client.. and or even having the program keep the port open thus eliminating the need for router configuration? maybe that's why software like logmein (a vnc clone) is popular..