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).
Questions tagged [remote-desktop]
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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 to be able to send the ctrl+alt+del key sequence…
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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 saved credentials to
log on to the remote…
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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 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 Remote Desktop logs out my session and terminates…
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What alternatives to VNC are there for Linux?
Are there (preferably free) alternatives to VNC on Linux?
Is there different remote desktop technologies for Linux or is it all based around VNC?
EDIT:
Thanks symcbean for your comment, good point. I find the network performance of RDP much faster…
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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 convinced that there are problems with the user…
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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 server in question is running Windows Server 2012…
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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 enough. I managed to log into a few of my servers.…
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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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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's just not set up correctly. When one user tries…
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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 anyone recommend an alternative similar to…
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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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