windows xp service pack 2

[Corne Beerse]

Anthony Watson wrote:
> I thought that VNC would allow me to bypass the terminal services limitation built into XP service pack 2, but the free version of VNC I downloaded kicked one user off, when another VNC connection was initiated.  Does the Personal or Enterprise version have this limitation or will it be able to maintain multiple connections?
>   

There is a huge difference between vnc and rdp on msWindows:
RDP can give you a new desktop for each connection. The number of those 
desktops is limited by license.

For what its worth, rdp can also connect to the existing destkop, where 
it consumes an rdp license. Hence I have the feeling the rdp licenses is 
(also) restricted by the number of connections.

VNC on msWindows gives access to an existing desktop. By default the 
number of vnc connections is limited for security reasons. This is 
configurable to a shared desktop, see the vnc server properties on the 
deskop at hand for details.

For what its worth, vnc can also connect to running rdp sessions, 
provided a vncserver is running in there (start the 
user-mode-vnc-server) and there is no port conflict between multiple vnc 
sessions: they all default to port 5900. Better to switch the vnc-server 
in an rdp session to a higher port (5901, 5902 and so on).


CBee