Can´t see application in remote desktop connection

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I have a W2K server and XP client, i see the server but i can’t see
the application there are running in the server, ¿can you tell me
anything about it?. I’m using the Remote Desktop Connection.

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eemart wrote:
> I have a W2K server and XP client, i see the server but i can’t see
> the application there are running in the server, ¿can you tell me
> anything about it?. I’m using the Remote Desktop Connection.

Not sure what you are asking..
You use Windows XP Remote Desktop to remote into a Windows 2000 server (so I
assumed you turned on Terminal Services for Administration or..?) and you
cannot see the applications running on the server? What are you trying to
see/do? Can you be more descriptive/exact?

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eemart <UseLinkToEmail@WindowsForumz.com> wrote:

> I want to connect 2 machines, mine with XP OS and a server with W2K
> using RDC, I have some application running in this server (i.e. an
> excel file), I want to modify the active worksheet in the excel file
> that I know is running but I can't see it, I can't even see the
> logo application in the taskbar (it seems the excel is not open, but
> it is).

Your problem is that W2K does not support Remote Desktop in the way that XP
Pro does. If the W2K server supports Terminal Services, then an incoming
call from a Remote Desktop client will create a new TS session on the
server, which will be quite independent of the session running on the server
console itself: that is why you do not see any of the applications open in
the TS session.

> I tried to use this sentence: "mstsc.exe myserver.rdp /console" but it
> didn't work.

That is the sort of thing you need to try doing, but there might be
configuration required on the server to enable console connections. In what
way did it "not work"?

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