Cool Terminal Services Client tip

Published 10 March 05 04:35 PM | alexcampbell

To log into Console 0 (the real desktop) of a Windows 2003 Server, run the Remote Desktop Connection client with the following command:

mstsc /console

Now I can totally remove VNC.

Comments

# Michael Schwarz said on March 10, 2005 01:46 AM:

Use mstsc /? to see all arguments you can pass to Remote Desktop Connection.

/v:<Server[:Port]>
/console
/f fullscreen
/w:<Width>
/h:<Height>
/edit will open RDP file
/migrate migrate old RDP files

# Jeff Atwood said on March 16, 2005 02:03 AM:

Cool tip, but dang, it doesn't support multiple instances. For reasons I probably shouldn't list here, I leave my 2k3 server at a locked desktop. So I get rejected with a terse "you're already logged in as console" message.