Download link: http://ice-club.com.ua/antiwpa/Other/TermSrvNoRestrPatch-1-3/
now the story:
If you have tweaked around with Windows XP you probably know that its possible to connect to another system across a network, intranet / internet as a remote user with the same interface as sitting on the system.
The capability is bundled with XP pro and I’m sure that you will find enough and more blogs / tutorial about how it works with screenshots and all. The issue is that its not available in XP Home and in XP Pro it allows only one user to work on the computer.
Based on my searches I believe its also possible to hack XP Home to support RDC, though I haven’t tried it myself the following link does have all the details that you could possibly need to try this out.
http://www.geekport.com/2007/08/15/enabling-remote-desktop-in-xp-home/
http://www.mydigitallife.info/2008/06/14/install-and-enable-remote-desktop-in-windows-xp-home-edition/
Now to the problem in XP pro , as mentioned earlier , the licencing agreement of MS allows only one user to access the computer so if you RDC to a computer the existing user gets logged out (not desirable). There is a way of overcoming this issue with some registry changes and a changed Terminal Service Dynamic Link Library (termserv.dll).
There are detailed article on the procedure available below
http://sig9.com/articles/concurrent-remote-desktop
http://www.mydigitallife.info/2008/06/13/enable-multiple-concurrent-remote-desktop-connections-or-sessions-in-windows-xp/
Additional some good soul has also written a program that neatly makes all these changes and also patches the termserv.dll the link for that is
http://www.kood.org/terminal-server-patch/
For most of the people in the world doing all this worked just fine and if you have tried and are successful good for you …. but then again there are those who are not so fortunate in life such as me who after trying out each and everything on all the links that I have posted including the application got nothing to work. The main user still got logged out each time I tried to RDC to the system.
After more googling I came across this obscure little package called
TermSrvNoRestrPatch-1-3
The location of the file is as following
http://ice-club.com.ua/antiwpa/Other/TermSrvNoRestrPatch-1-3/
which was also a real pain to find a valid link for it. It worked like a charm, it step by step patched all the file which the other application also did but this one got it to work ! It also patched the capability to RDC to a local host, yes there are a few reason why someone would want to do something like this 🙂 such as running multiple instances of a single program.
A word of caution, since the code edits few of the windows’ files, some antivirus programs through it up as a virus. You may need to run this in safemode if your antivirus prevents its from executing and more importantly if your convinced that it isn’t a virus.
Hope this has helped all the hapless people out there trying to get this to work. As always do drop me a comment if you found this useful, click an ad if your feeling generous !