rdp is Remote Desktop Protocol, used by Windows to view and control other Windows systems
RDP allows remote windows users to view and interact with a remote windows server as if they were sitting at that server's desktop.
Questions tagged [rdp]
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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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Send Ctrl-Alt-Del to nested RDP session
Is there a way to send the Ctrl-Alt-Del command to an RDP session (Windows Server 2008 R2) inside another RDP session (also Windows Server 2008 R2) without the first session catching it?
Ctrl+Alt+End and Ctrl+Alt+Shift+End do not reach the 2nd level…
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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 saved credentials to
log on to the remote…
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Configure custom SSL certificate for RDP on Windows Server 2012 (and later) in Remote Administration mode?
So the release of Windows Server 2012 has removed a lot of the old Remote Desktop related configuration utilities. In particular, there is no more Remote Desktop Session Host Configuration utility that gave you access to the RDP-Tcp properties…
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How do I disable TLS 1.0 without breaking RDP?
Our credit card processor recently notified us that as of June 30, 2016 we will need to disable TLS 1.0 to remain PCI compliant. I tried to be proactive by disabling TLS 1.0 on our Windows Server 2008 R2 machine, only to find that immediately after…
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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, I am able to use users from the active directory…
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This could be due to CredSSP encryption oracle remediation - RDP to Windows 10 pro host
Error
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 authentication error occurred. The function…
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How can I view active remote connections (RDP) to a Windows server?
How can I view, who is currently connected to a server (Windows 2012) with a remote desktop client? I am myself connected to this server via RDP.
This question offers a solution to get IP addresses with established connections. I would be interested…
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RDP error "The function requested is not supported" after enabling NLA
I'm trying to RDP into one of my servers, which as Network Level Authentication Enabled as well as NTLMv2 being forced. This worked fine until the server had to reboot for updates. Now, I cannot RDP into my server anymore. I get this error trying to…
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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 client to use password mentioned in the file instead…
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how to tunnel Windows Remote Desktop through ssh using a linux box?
I have two physical servers in my home network, linux (192.168.8.x) and windows server 2008 (192.168.8.y).
The linux server ist accessible from outside by ssh on a non-standard port (say 23008).
How do I establish a permanent RDP tunnel through ssh…
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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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How can I get the IP address of a remote desktop client? And how can I trigger a shell command upon RDP connect?
Is there a way to determine the IP address of a remote desktop client using PowerShell (or some other method) on the server? (Windows Server 2008 R2 x64 is what I'm using)
EDIT: I find that I can grep netstat's stdout to retrieve this information…
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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 -- Allow Remote Access there is an option that…
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Windows 10 Pro, RDP Server, "An internal error has occurred"
I have a Windows 10 Pro machine that is functioning as a RDP terminal for a single user.
This machine was configured more than 2 years ago and has had no major changes made to its configuration, except of course for the obligatory Windows 10…
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