Questions tagged [rdp]
rdp is Remote Desktop Protocol, used by Windows to view and control other Windows systems
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Restrict RDP access via Username but Allowed via Computer
Can anyone help me with my configuration? So I need to configure RDP access restrictions for certain users and machines. I've managed to do this by creating a GPO rule on Allow log on through Terminal ...
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Access Hyper-V guests via NAT and external IP address
I have a number of Windows VM's running on a Windows Hyper-V host (Windows Server 2016) and I need to be able to access the guests via RDP across the Internet but do not want to have to give them all ...
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RDP to Virtual Machine now asking for user sign in
We have a Windows Server 2012 VM that I installed a product on: Smart Bear TestExecute(v15.43 - latest): https://support.smartbear.com/testcomplete/docs/other-tools/testexecute.html
I was trialling ...
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Implement CIS Microsoft Windows Server 2019 but found conflict?
I am asked to implement CIS benchmark for Windows Server 2019
What I have in "CIS Microsoft Windows Server 2019 benchmark v1.2.1"
and I found rule 2.2.9 says Ensure 'Allow log on through ...
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Unable to remote to VM instance with Oracle Linux 8.6 and XRDP using Remote Desktop Connection
I created a VM instance on Oracle Cloud, using Oracle Linux 8.6. I added TCP 3389 port in VCN on OCI before installing GUI.
I want to install GUI and allow RDP connection to VM instance, so I ...
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RDP Idle Session Logout Exclusion not working
We just set up a GPO which logs out inactive/disconnected RDP sessions after a 1 hour timeout, as so...
which works great, exactly as expected.
We then have a group to which we can add users, in case ...
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RDP freezes as soon as you click connect while on VPN using native RDP, works fine with older RDCMan 2.7 app
This started yesterday for no reason I can figure.
Some VPN users can get in if they use the FQDN, but most just freeze with short, fqdn or IP.
I did notice if they are using Remote Desktop Connection ...
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Unable to connect to servers via RDP using their IPs (works with their hostnames) only for some admin accounts
We have nominative user and admin accounts. Admin accounts are in the "domain admins" group.
When some of us log onto some servers via RDP with the server's IP we get the error "A user ...
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RDP into VM without an OS
Is it possible to RDP into a Virtualbox VM in order to install an OS on it? So in other words is it possible to RDP into a Virtualbox VM that has no OS installed yet?
I have a headless ubuntu server ...
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Shutdown KVM Guest via rdp
We have multiple OpenSuse VMs running on a server via KVM. Our users access the VMs via Guacamole as a xrdp session. If the VMs are in status "shut off" or "pause" a magic packet ...
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Windows forcing application to exit with exit status 1073807364 (0x40010004) [DBG_TERMINATE_PROCESS]
Paying it forward with question and answer.
Remote application launched from a desktop via a .RDP file. During initialization on the RDS box the application is seen to startup and then immediately ...
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How to confirm whether I am running in a RDP mstsc /admin session?
Inside an already started RDP session how would I confirm whether I am indeed running inside a session successfully started with the admin switch (mstsc /admin)?
I think with older server versions you ...
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Can you modify or remove a Domain GPO Setting through powershell
I have an issue where I was modifying some settings in the Default Domain Policy (I know I shouldn't have) and I've managed somehow to set the 'Allow log on through Terminal Services' to a null value (...
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Is it possible to make a reverse RDP connection on windows server?
My Windows Server 2016 is behind a router, which i have no access to. So i can't open ports and do port-forwarding. I want to connect to my server via RDP. Sure I could use some 3rd party apps like ...
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RDP login works when using Android App, but now when using Windows [closed]
I am trying to connect to my work machine using RDP.
Using my Android Phone I can connect to it. It shows up in the list and I fill in my details like so: COMPANYNAME\USERNAME. Then I enter the ...
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How to connect a RDP machine to a VPN?
When I try to connect my RDP machine to a VPN(PPTP), I get disconnected from my RDP.
My understanding so far is that all the traffic, including the RDP traffic, is being routed to a different ...
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RDP crashes when another user is logged in
I've been experiecing a problem lately with RDP. The situation:
I have 2 accounts on my Win10 Pro machine. A personal one and one for work.
I use RDP to connect to my personal account but RDP crashes ...
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MAC: Remote Desktop Connection - take over session of active user on client
I am new to RDP, hence not entirely sure if this is the desired behaviour or not.
I am using RDP on my MAC to connect to clients throughout the office and do minor maintenance on them. Today I noticed ...
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Remote Desktop (App Store version) can't connect to localhost
OK we have a weird setup I know..
We create an SSH tunnel to our work network, then use RDP to connect to our workstations in the office. Our SSH client is setup to forward local post 1024 to our ...
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GPU Acceleration on a Windows Server without virtualization over RDP
I'm trying to find out if it's possible to run a Windows Server with one GPU which is shared between all RDP clients so that people could
create a session on the server
start some program with a UI ...
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Microsoft Remote Desktop (MacOS) - Certificate trust
I've got a Windows RemoteApps setup to access a few applications from home but having some issues connecting from MacOS devices using the Microsoft Remote Desktop app. I initially thought it coincided ...
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How to recreate RDS High Availability database if the database is lost?
I have Windows Server 2016 RDS farm which contains 16 servers. All these servers are configured for High Availability and use same database on SQL cluster.
If this database would be lost for some ...
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How to block rdp passwords brute-forcing? [closed]
I've noticed there are significant spikes in cpu consumption on my servers due to bots trying to brute force my rdp password. I tried to change an rdp port, it helps for a while but then it resumes. ...
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How to initialize sound in VirtualBox's VRDP?
On my Gentoo Linux host, running VirtualBox 1.6.28, I'm unable to negotiate a VRDP (RDP-4 version) connection because the rdesktop-vrdp client fails to initialize sound so it doesn't connect at all as ...
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Is it safe to use Internet-facing RDP in combination with IP-whitelisting on Windows Firewall?
I am using a VPS that I connect to using RDP over the internet. Since I was experiencing an incessant stream of brute force attacks on the RDP, I configured the windows firewall to only allow certain ...
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Programmatically grant a user the ability to log on using remote desktop
I have several Windows Server 2022 hosts that I need to manage the user rights assignment through automation.
When I manually grant a domain user SeRemoteInteractiveLogonRight rights, they cannot log ...
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Terminal server without audio card. Is virtual sound over rdp connections possible?
I have a terminal server that is windows 2016. When I open sound in the botton right, it states that there are no devices that support sound (device manager doesn't show anything for sound either).
A ...
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Making applications hosted on third machine available through RDP?
We have a RDP "jump box" which is the only machine on our local network allowed to get incoming RDP connections. Is there a way to make applications on another machine (not the jump box, but ...
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EBS Won't Size Correctly Windows Instance
My root volume won't expand to the size the EC2 console shows we've set the drive to.
The C:\ should be 1.5 TB but only shows as 50 GB. The option to expand the volume isn't present in the disk ...
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How to force disconnect from Windows Remote Apps command line
I have a RDP connection that is initiated by a RD Gateway website.
Login and everything works well.
But sometimes the connection becomes a ghost, or if i want to login as another user on the same RD ...
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RDP Windows server 2019
I'm connecting to one windows server 2019 from another windows server 2019 through RDP, when i close the connection using the "X" button and then try to open new RDP connection i get a ...
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Azure AAD Proxy with RDS webclient RDP issue
I have currently implemented the below solution into our environment so that we can achieve pre-authorisation to access our RDWeb / HTML5 WebClient:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/active-...
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Windows Server 2022 RDP connection fails with error 0x3 + extended error 0x11
The Issue:
Today I started receiving an error while connecting to an Azure hosted Windows 2022 Server that until recently (2 or 3 days ago) were connecting fine.
The symptom: the connection error ...
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Prevent EC2 User from Seeing AWS Secrets and Credentials
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I use a windows EC2 instance with a role attached that allows it access to specific AWS Secrets Manager secrets. We never use access keys directly. The app running on the instance needs to be ...
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How to reserve a processor in Windows Server for Remote Desktop
Windows Server 2012 R2, every once in a while a runaway process will take up all the CPU and my RDP session will either take forever to start or disconnect after a long wait. Is there a way to ...
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No User exists for 'query user'
I have one weird issue on the virtual machine. When I do 'query user user1' is not showing the active session of the user. It says 'No User exists for user1', though there is active connection. ...
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How to find admin which logged off my RDP session
I recently discovered that since some days, someone often logs off my RDP session to our jump admin server when I have disconnected my session (which then terminates any long-running task I may have ...
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Active Directory: how to get rid of NTLM when we have remote users (road warriors)?
I want to disable NTLM completely. I don't want password hash to be stored in memory because of pass-the-hash attack (people don't have SeDebugPrivilege but anyway NTLM is not good)
But people connect ...
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One remote RDP user often gets stuck on "Please wait for the local session manager" from a shared virtual Windows Server 2019; others work
The server is a shared virtual server slice running Windows Server 2019. (Set up by InterServer - I'm the software developer of the customer.)
A remote Windows 10 computer in location A usually ...
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Replace Self Signed RDP Cert with CA Signed Cert
A few servers are getting picked up by security scans with the following message:
The following certificate was at the top of the certificate chain sent by the remote host, but it is signed by an ...
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Force generate a new session or lock a session ID to a client when using the same login for Windows Virtual Machines versus taking over empty session?
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Our engineering group generates new Windows VMs from a template that uses a generic admin user. Through the course of a project that user is used in multiple, parallel sessions by several ...
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Linux equivalent to "query user /server:my-server-address"
The command from the title displays all connected users for my terminal server. Is there an equivalent linux command to display the same information?
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Securely connecting to clients via RDP over VPN
I have a network connectable by VPN, and want to limit most users to only be able to access certain hosts, indirectly.
It consists of several Windows hosts that will be connected by RDP. I'm more of a ...
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Printers not redirecting when RD session host role is installed (winserver 2019)
as the title says, printers will not redirect to the remote server when that role is installed, everything works fine if i remove the role, but the thing is, without the role i can't control the ...
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Detect Windows X server display number from Linux (client of X)
Our team often connect to a Windows server through remote desktop (RDP). Inside RDP, we use Putty (a terminal emulator) to connect to a Linux server. Sometimes we launch X-Win32 (an X server for ...
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Only Allow 1 user to Remote Desktop at a time (Windows 2019)
By default Windows 2019 allows 2 users to remote desktop at one time. Is there a way to restrict this even further to allow only 1 remote desktop user at a time?
I tried the following tutorial, ...
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Nested AD Groups RDP permission not applying to new Windows Server 2019 VM
Similar Issue with no responses: Nested AD groups working in local computer groups, but certain servers fail to allow RDP?
I am only new to this environment and the person I took this over from also ...
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why chrome.exe and svchost.exe connecting to RDP port 3389 on 127.0.0.1
i noticed in the event viewer that chrome.exe and svchost.exe are connecting to 127.0.0.1 remotely using RDP port 3389 on multiple Pc's . i couldn't figure out why this event happens even though that ...
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Fast intercontinental Remote Desktop Sessions
I will be working from Thailand for the next months and I want to be able to RDP or Anydesk my office PC in Greece. Previous attempts have been proven unstable with varied results throughout the day - ...
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Can I use AD CS to Authenticate Domain Users Instead of a Password?
I have a number of Active Directory Domain User Accounts, which function essentially as service accounts. I'd like to avoid having to rotate the passwords for all of those domain user accounts, and ...
