how to: remote logoff of remote desktop session

[office politics]

i received this error when trying to logon to a server.

"the terminal server has exceeded the maximum Number of allowed connections"


i remotely logged off the sessions using these procedures

Cannot Log On to Windows 2000 Terminal Services with an RDP Client


my senario was a xp client to a 2003 server.

 

[Shylock]

yep. you cannot adjust the number of your seat licenses, although RDC 5.0 allows you to connect to console from remote, which is what you'd have to do. and its a good idea to setup your timeout settings a little leaner probably in most cases. try using: start | run - mstsc -v: (ip of server) /f -console or # rdesktop -0 (ip of server) (from *nix) perhaps. without the () 's btw. oh ps, to make your timeout settings leaner its : Administrative Tools > Terminal Services Configuration>Connections>right click rdp-tcp>properties>session tab> check over ride whatever, and set it to whatever you want, half hour or so. click the disconnect from session radio and you should be good to go.