"The connection closed unexpectedly"

[B. Scott Smith]

Are they using Fast User Switching?

Ben wrote:

>Hi all
> 
>I'm having some problems logging into several remote systems. Each PC is
>running Windows XP (home 5.1), and the Windows Firewall has been
>configured to accept connections through port 5900 for VNC. The router
>has also been set to port forward 5900 to the local IP of the PC.
> 
>In general, I have had very little problems accessing these systems
>through VNC over the last six months. However, occasionally just after a
>re-boot, I am given the usual password login interface but then an error
>message pops up without letting me in ("The connection closed
>unexpectedly"). This has happened to a number of systems in the last few
>days.
> 
>Logging into the router, I can see that the local IP of the PC hasn't
>changed, and the PC is obviously still switched on (otherwise I would
>not have received the VNC login interface). A hard boot seems to fix the
>problem, but this is can be difficult to acheive at some locations as
>they are located in remote locations.
> 
>I'm not sure why this problem only seems to happen intermittently, but
>if anyone has any suggestions I'd be most grateful. Perhaps it's a
>startup issue on the PC - but I do find this hard to believe that it'd
>happen at such a large number of locations (especially when remaining
>systems still work fine).
> 
>Kind regards
> 
>Ben
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