Using qwinsta to drop terminal services sessions

Archived from groups: microsoft.public.windowsnt.terminalserver.connectivity (More info?)

Hi,

I have locked myself out of a co-located machine (win2000) which I normally
use terminal services to access. The two sessions have become disconected
(but still active), and I recieve a liscensing error if I now try to
connect.

I have tried to drop the sessions by using qwinsta and rwinsta from our
development server (win2000) but recieve the following error:

Error opening Terminal server xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
Error [1722]:The RPC server is unavailable.

Now the co-located machine is behind a firewall, but has port 3389 opened up
for terminal services access from our IP. Does qwinsta use any other ports?

One thing I do not understand about these two tools is authentication.
There is no optoin to enter a username password to get the query
information - does this mean that it will only work in a trust relationship
(the two machine are on unrelated domains) or qwinsta normally just offer
this information to anyone who asks?

Thanks for any info

Archived from groups: microsoft.public.windowsnt.terminalserver.connectivity (More info?)

Sosh,
If the user acccount that runs qwinsta/rwinsta that is not known to the
remote machine, then you need to setup a 'trust' relationship. One way to to
it is run net use \\remoteMachine before running qwinsta/rwinsta
hope it helps

Thanks
Soo Kuan

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"sosh" <sosh@something.com> wrote in message
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> Hi,
>
> I have locked myself out of a co-located machine (win2000) which I
> normally
> use terminal services to access. The two sessions have become disconected
> (but still active), and I recieve a liscensing error if I now try to
> connect.
>
> I have tried to drop the sessions by using qwinsta and rwinsta from our
> development server (win2000) but recieve the following error:
>
> Error opening Terminal server xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
> Error [1722]:The RPC server is unavailable.
>
> Now the co-located machine is behind a firewall, but has port 3389 opened
> up
> for terminal services access from our IP. Does qwinsta use any other
> ports?
>
> One thing I do not understand about these two tools is authentication.
> There is no optoin to enter a username password to get the query
> information - does this mean that it will only work in a trust
> relationship
> (the two machine are on unrelated domains) or qwinsta normally just offer
> this information to anyone who asks?
>
> Thanks for any info
>
>
>

Damn! net use \\serverName actually allows a trusted relationship btw the client and host.

using: qwinsta /server:serverName queries rdp sessions... and finally
rwinsta 1 /server:serverName to terminate the target session; where 1 is the session No.


Thanks folks! Now i will never worry about being locked out of an rdp session!