Microsoft should allow one console and one remote for Windows XP,
specifically to support an administrator session concurrent with a user
session, which has many many possible applications, including remote
administration of the machine while it is in use, and application
installation by the user using a separate console session. Neither of those
things has anything to do with being a server or a workstation.

What is the DLL that needs to be replaced to fix this problem? I hate to be
using Beta code of course, but it renders the OS of much lower value to me
if I cannot administer things in a console environment while I am logged in
to the console as a simple user. It's a very bizarre thing Microsoft has
done here.

And yes, Windows 2000=Windows 2000 Server.

--
Will


"Shenan Stanley" <newshelper@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> Will wrote:
> > That's fine, I only need one. I have no other RDP session to the
> > Windows XP. I'm simply trying to connect from the Windows XP box
> > to itself using RDP. They can't be counting the current login to
> > the console as an instance of an RDP session?!
> >
> > How do I get the terminal services management applications open to
> > see what RDP sessions Windows XP thinks are there?
>
> I believe you misunderstood.
>
> First - when you say "Windows 2000" in your original post - you must have
> meant "Windows 2000 Server" - correct?
>
> Second - when Richard said that Windows 2000/2003 allows up to three
> sessions at once - he meant "at once".. One local, two remote... That's
your
> possible combination.
>
> Last - when Richard said Windows XP allows only one - he meant only one
> session (period) - local or remote - not one of each.
>
> Is there a way around that? Sure - you can look for the hack to allow
> multiple terminal service connections to Windows XP that requires the
> replacement of a dll from a beta version of Service Pack 2 out on the
web -
> but it is definitely not supported by Microsoft.
>
> --
> Shenan Stanley
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