Concurrent RDP connections hack – XP

Posted March 26th, 2009 by admin

by Toufiq Ali, NII Consulting
Before you read further make sure you back up all the original settings of the registry or set create a restore point of your system. I assume reader know what a windows remote terminal service is. If not please refer to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terminal_Services

In Windows XP when a remote user tries to connect using the Remote Desktop Connection (RDC) client in Windows XP, the local user is disconnected from his current session forcefully. RDC, unlike Terminal Server Services in Windows 2000, Server 2003 and Server 2008, is designed for only one session at a time.. This excerpt aims at making terminal services functionality of multiple user login from Windows server 2000, windows server 2003 etc in Windows XP. This would be very useful in environment where the network admin often troubleshoots problem on the network using RDC.

Keep reading as the hack unfolds to enable concurrent remote desktop connection sessions support in Windows XP using the following patched files. Read the rest of this entry »