Here’s a handy tip I just recently learned from the new intern on our team (see, you can learn something from anyone on any given day). I’ve long known you could access your local drives from a remote machine. For example, start up a remote desktop dialog. Then expand the dialog by clicking on Options, then check the Local Resources tab. Make sure Clipboard is checked, and then hit the More… button. Now you can select a local disk to be shared with the remote machine. For example, in...
For a project I’m working on, we have an automated build server running CruiseControl.NET hosted in a virtual machine. We do the same thing for Subtext. Some of you may have multiple virtual servers running on the same machine. Typically in such a setup (at least typically for me), each virtual server won’t have its own public IP Address, instead sharing the public IP of the host computer. This makes it a tad bit difficult to manage the virtual servers since using Remote Desktop to connect to the public IP will connect to the host computer and not the virtual machine. ...
UPDATE: If you are using Windows Server 2008, the switch is /admin not /console. See this post for details.
We use Remote Desktop (Terminal Services) to remotely manage a Windows 2003 server that is not part of our domain. Recently we ran into the two user limit for remote desktop connections, which barred anyone from connecting.
Jon discovered a neat little trick that got us in. He ran the following command from the command line:
mstsc -console
It turns out that mstsc.exe is the remote desktop connection application. The -console flag specifies that we want to connect to the console session of...