Comments on: Remote Desktop Connection (RDP) to the console session

By: Jim

Jim — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 03:08:55 +0000

I have Win 7 RDP to Win 7. I have tried “/Admin”, “/console”, “-admin”, and “console”
What I am tryng to to is basically Automatic “remote Assistance” wherein the user logged on to that machine ca also interact with the same session. But I cannot see to get this to connect without forcing the local user off. Anyway to do this with RDP?

By: Meg

Meg — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 17:00:09 +0000

using an administrator account, I’m able to log on to the console session of windows 2003 server. But if I use a non administrator account, it errors out saying only administrator can log on to the console session.

Please guide me that what setting I have to change so that a non administrator can log on to the console session.

Thanks,
meg

By: Octacular Musteline

Octacular Musteline — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 10:53:24 +0000

Hi All,

mstsc is Windows Remote Desktop connection executable file,
-v indicates a server to connect to,
/F indicates full screen mode (optional),
-console is the instruction to connect to the console session.

For example: mstsc -v:192.168.1.2 /F -console

This works for me fine.

Cheers

Octacular Musteline

By: Bill

Bill — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 21:14:47 +0000

If you are running Vista and would like to get both the desktop background to appear and work in “admin” mode, it looks like you have to A) Create a .rdp file using the Remote Desktop Connection Manager (Save As…), making sure to check the Desktop Background box in the Experience tab, and B) Edit this .Rdp file using Notepad to include the following line:

administrative session:i:1

By: Abhishek

Abhishek — Tue, 19 May 2009 04:36:55 +0000

Hi,
You can connect to console session of any Remote server by:

1. Go to Stat Menu > Run
2. mstsc /v: ServerName /Console

Happy working….

Regards,
Abhishek

By: charlie

charlie — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 16:50:20 +0000

Thanks! I was unaware of the /console session! Makes it much easier to manage rdp’s.
thanks.

By: Dangit

Dangit — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 22:10:16 +0000

It use to be /console but I believe they changed it in Windows XP SP3 to be /Admin.

By: Scott

Scott — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 16:30:09 +0000

Thanks Andy the -console switch didn’t work but /Admin did.

By: Andy

Andy — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 15:20:54 +0000

That doesn’t work, try adding /admin to the end instead.

By: Jon

Jon — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 17:51:52 +0000

Thank you, it worked! I’ve been looking for this for ages now