Re: persistent sessions

On Friday 29 Oct 2010, Csillag Kristof wrote:
> > at work, I need to connect to some windows 2003 terminal servers, for
> > which I use rdesktop.
> > It works fine, except that when I close my client, my session at the
> > server terminates, too.
> >
> > Other users (using windows) have informed me that this does not happen
> > for them: the session
> > is persistent, they can re-connect to it later.
> >
> > So, this makes me wonder if this depends on the RDP client.
> > (I guess so, since this is the only difference.)
> >
> > What can I do to make rdesktop close the connection in such a way that
> > the session persists?

I must admit that I was unaware that that was even possible, and assumed that 
you were referring to VNC; but a quick google revealed the following:

 * http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc739961(WS.10).aspx

So it would appear to be down to the configuration of the server, and then 
ensuring that you take the disconnect option instead of logging off.

-- 
Chris Roberts

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