Don't Try This At Home

I wasn't paying attention when I typed:

mstsc /v:name.domain.net /console

Unfortunately, I was already sitting in front of the very machine I was trying to reach with terminal services. I took over the console, all right - the screen blacked out. I couldn't get Ctrl-Alt-Delete to provoke a response. If it wasn't for the lights on the case I'd have thought the computer died.

It takes 30 seconds or so for the un-credentialed new connection to timeout and return control to the real console.

It's a very long, worrying 30 seconds, though. I just wanted to share my anxiety.

Print | posted @ Monday, October 16, 2006 3:15 AM

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Gravatar # re: Don't Try This At Home
by David Grant at 10/17/2006 3:10 PM

That's random, similar thing happened to me last night. I was testing RDC access to my computer over the 'net - from the same computer - and I got logged out. Upon trying to log back in, I got some kind of "sorry, term serv stuff going on... try again later" message, which never resolved itself. Had to reboot.
(seems like that would be a MS RDC test case)
  
Gravatar # re: Don't Try This At Home
by scott at 10/18/2006 3:22 PM

David:

Yes - I had the same message. You'd think the machine could detect this.
  
Gravatar # re: Don't Try This At Home
by Carl at 10/19/2006 8:08 PM

It's like that scene from "Being John Malkovich", where Malkovich goes into his own head.
  
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