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Remote desktop session being blocked by localally logged on user

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gramsey438 | 20:45 Tue 12th Jul 2011 | Technology
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I am trying to connect to my home computer via remote desktop, however even though I am a administrator on the machine I can be blocked from connecting if a standard user is on the machine and chooses to block my connection.

If nobody is logged onto the machine I do not have an issue and the connection goes through ok, I just need to know how I can prevent a locally logged on person who is a member of the standard user group blocking my connection attempts ?
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Forgot to mention the machine in question is running XP pro SP3 fully patched.
Fast User Switching may be the issue. I seem to recall that when FUS is not enabled users can be forced to disconnect by a remote administrator but FUS allows the user to deny the remote request.
Might help if you mentioned the OS version too, as they deal with this in different ways.

Also are you in a domain environment?
opps... sorrry.... XP then :)

Is it a on a domain though?
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No it is part of a local workgroup only
Have a read here and see which scenario closest matches yours then..

http://support.micros...?scid=kb;en-us;280828

(there is a hack you can do to enable both users to log in at the same time BTW... http://sig9.com/artic...urrent-remote-desktop )
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I`m pleased to report that the fast user switching solution put forward appears to have resolved the issue. I did find however that it is not possible to switch tis off via a rdp session, you need to be locally logged on to do this. I`m sure that there is a registry tweak somewhere to bypass this issue but the main thing is I now have my god rights back on the machine (;->

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