killing remote desktop sessions?

[Guest salan]

hi all,

anyone any ideas as to how I can kill dead remote desktop sesisons?

I us e this to admin some of our servers and occationally the sesison goes south (black screen). I then have to start another session. but how do I kill the first session?

What proccess do I kill on the server please?

There seems to be many running (a copy of explorer copy of.... etc etc).

[EduTech]

Got to task manager > users > right click on user > End the remote sessions from there

 

James.

[Ric_]

Start -> Programs -> Adminstrative Tools -> Terminal Services Manager

 

Right-click on the session and select logoff or reset.

[Vegas]

task manager - users - logoff?

[Guest salan]

Thanks! Couldn't see wood for tree's!!

[Ric_]

Got to task manager > users > right click on user > End the remote sessions from there

 

task manager - users - logoff?

 

My way's better because you can administer all the servers at once

[EduTech]

My way's better because you can administer all the servers at once

 

Get Out!!!

 

My way was just the first thing that came into my head soo nerrr!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[e-class]

If you are talking about an RDP session to a server which goes pear shaped and you then have to log on to that server again then the easiest way would be to do the following:

 

1)... From a DOS prompt type "quser".

2)... This gives you a list of connected sessions with session IDs

3)... Identify the dodgy session ID and type 'logoff '.

 

You can also check remote servers as well by doing:

quser /server:

which gives you information about connected sessions for the specified server.

 

See: Query user

for a more in depth look at quser.

 

HTH

[mac_shinobi]

on the server if you connect using another session cant you right click on my computer --> manage and see all the remotely connected sessions and do it that way ?

 

If not then I must be thinking of shared files and not the terminal services section as per above.

 

Could do with having a server 2003 and a 10.5 server configured on my mac pro under 2 vm's to play around with settings etc.

[cypdon99]

hi all,

anyone any ideas as to how I can kill dead remote desktop sesisons?

I us e this to admin some of our servers and occationally the sesison goes south (black screen). I then have to start another session. but how do I kill the first session?

What proccess do I kill on the server please?

There seems to be many running (a copy of explorer copy of.... etc etc).

 

 

In command prompt, execute following commands to kill terminal services sessions remotely. Replace blue with your own parameters.

 

Step 1. Gain enough privilidge to kill RDP connection on the server.

net use \\servername_or_IP /USER:username “password“

 

Step 2. List the connection to a particular server and get session ID.

query session /server:servername

 

Step 3. Reset the session which you don’t need using ID of the session from Step 2.

reset session ID /server:servername_or_IP

 

That’s it! However it seems that on some machines, query.exe and reset.exe are not available. If that’s the case, try qwinsta.exe and rwinsta.exe respectivly in place of query.exe and reset.exe. Alternatively, you should be able to find query.exe and reset.exe in “C:\WINDOWS\System32\dllcache“. Copy the files to System32 directory and you are good to go.

 

 

Ex:

 

step 1:

net use \\120.130.12.4 /USER:administrator gjhsd71

 

step 2:

query session /server:120.130.12.4

 

you will get result like this....session id is 1 here

 

SESSIONNAME USERNAME ID STATE TYPE DEVICE

-----------------------------------------------------------------------------

console Administrator 1 Active

 

step 3:

reset session 1 /server:120.130.12.4