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Mon, Apr 24 2006 20:05 bradley

RWW/RDPing and Gigabit cards - are you seeing issues?

Brand new Dell Optiplex and I'm sitting at my desktop doing stuff  (uh...like blogging this) while the desktop I'm setting up is just outside my office where I can keep an eye on it and as it reboots and comes back up I CANNOT remote desktop into it until it's logged into.  I keep getting the "desktop is too busy to accept connections".. I mean how can you be too busy when I'm the one controlling you?  On the listserves they've been talking about this and it's ALWAYS been gigabit network card related.

Turn off the "offload components" under the Advanced setting in the NIC is what Karen said, but I disabled the power settings, and anything else that might interfere in the network card configuration, then under the advanced setting, reboot the box and see if I can RDP from this desktop to it.

Dang.. nope.  Still doing it.

hmmmm...that didn't work either..... okay I'll keep testing settings...but know that if you are seeing this.. you are not alone.....

P.S.  But I "can" TS from the server via computer management/server management console...and once I do that.. I can then RDP from my workstation.

.... now that's really weird...why can I RDP after the server kicks the session off...but not desktop to desktop?

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# re: RWW/RDPing and Gigabit cards - are you seeing issues?

Tuesday, April 25, 2006 2:42 AM by Nico

Got the same isue at a few clients. what i do is open a second RDP connection (mstsc /console) while the first is still trying to connect. Dang, the second one connects, while the first times out.

At least i get to support my clients boxes through VPN in this way.

Strange thing is, even connecting thorugh PPTP or L2TP VPN directly to the box gives these isues. So where goes the Gigabit connection in this story? (vpn tunnel is encoded, so on switch level it should not distinct the packet from any other packet beïng send)

I think it has something to do with a challenge from the server not returning to your desktop for some reason.

# re: RWW/RDPing and Gigabit cards - are you seeing issues?

Tuesday, April 25, 2006 8:29 AM by Rob Murphy

I had a similiar issue re Gigabit card's and media sensing as the nic initialiased - the problem manifested it;s self in two subtle ways.
1) event id 1054 - cannot locate domain controller name ...
2) unable to remote desktop!!!

see jsi tip 7243 http://www.jsifaq.com/SUBO/tip7200/rh7243.htm

and

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/239924/EN-US/

Good Luck