Remote Desktops Sessions locking up

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Does anyone from Microsoft who monitors this newsgroup have any ideas on this
issue? Anyone else? By the way I think I forgot to mention below that both
machines (work and home) are on Windows XP Pro and both have the latest
updates.
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Thanks
Allen


"Allen" wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'm hoping someone might have a clue as to what's going on with Remote
> Desktop. I have a PC at work and use my computer at home to connect via
> Remote Desktop. This is connected to a domain (not a workgroup). My PC at
> home is configured as a workgroup and I connect via DSL to my work PC and log
> onto the domain. Generically this works fine. The problem I run into is that
> at random times after sometimes single successful (other times multiple)
> connects from home, when I try to log in again Remote desktop is NOT able to
> connect to my work PC. It gets far enough to recognize my domain password
> because when I put in the wrong password it tells me right away. But after
> accepting my password my desktop session does NOT get established and after
> about 30 seconds the remote desktop session just disappears.
>
> I have found that a workaround for this issue is to log onto the remote work
> PC by logging on as a LOCAL user (not onto the domain) with admin rights.
> This logs in successfully, then I log off and I'm then able to log back onto
> the work PC and log onto the domain as usual using my company supplied domain
> user name.
>
> However, this workaround is very painful since it causes me to lose all my
> desktop apps which I have to reestablish once I get a successful connection
> back onto the domain.
>
> I am a software engineer and do a lot of work from home via Remote Desktop
> so I frequently log on remotely, disconnect, log on at work then come home
> and do it all over again. Many times I can get 5-10 successful remote desktop
> connections before this problem happens but other times it locks up after
> just a single remote desktop connection.
>
> There seems to be no rhyme or reason to when this happens, it appears to be
> just totally random. The indications are that some process locks up on the
> remote work PC which for some reason logging on as a LOCAL user through
> remote desktop seems to release and then it works fine again until the next
> occurrence.
>
> I must have this happen at least 3-5 times (sometimes more) every single
> week with all the work I do from home.
>
> Anyone have any ideas? Any thoughts on this will be much appreciated.
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> Thanks
> Allen