Let Windows XP Remote Desktop also play multi-user management

Unfortunately, unlike the original terminal service, Windows XP does not support multiple users logging in at the same time. In other words, when other users log in to your Windows XP remotely, the user currently operating on the host will automatically quit and the screen will be black. When you log in to the system again, it is unfortunate that the remote user's connection will be interrupted again (note that in Windows 2003, multiple users are allowed to log in to the host at the same time as a local or remote desktop connection).

So is Windows XP's remote desktop missing from multi-user login? No, WinConnect Server, developed by Bosoft, allows us to break through the limitations and multi-users can also take a trip to Windows XP at the same time.

Download and Install

The latest version of WinConnect Server is WinConnect Server XP. The developer software software provides a free trial version for users to download. The URL is http://www.thinsoftinc.com/download/WinConnect-ServerXP/setup.exe
, the software size is 8.40MB.

The trial version can be used for 7 days with full functionality. In addition, each remote workstation can only be connected for 30 minutes and will automatically shut down after 30 minutes.

The installation of WinConnect Server is very simple, just click "Next" all the way to complete the installation. After the installation is complete, restart the system and WinConnect Server can start the service.

Property Settings

After installing the trial version of WinConnect Server, the software will pop up a message box each time you log in to the system to remind the user of the software's expiration date and the workstation's automatic shutdown time. At this point, you use the remote desktop connection to log in to the host, you can see that the system will no longer automatically log out as before.

Next, let's make some basic property settings for WinConnect Server. Double-click the "WinConnect Server XP Control Center" shortcut on the desktop to log in to the WinConnect Server XP console.

WinConnect Server provides both Chinese and English language interface, you can click "Options" /"Set Language", then select your preferred language interface in the open language selection box, the default is Chinese.

Setting the properties of the host in the WinConnect Server console is extremely simple: first select the current host in the host list on the left, such as "ZJNU-0000", click "Action → Properties", then the program will The server information, server setup information, and RDP (Remote Desktop Protocol) settings of the current host are displayed in a list as shown.

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As you can see, in front of some list items, the ">" symbol is marked, which means that this list item can be set. Double-click this item and set the relevant option value in the pop-up dialog box. For example, if we want to set up each remote desktop client connected to the host to have a separate temporary folder, we just double-click the "each session has a separate temporary folder" list item, and then select "Yes" in the pop-up dialog box. Finally, click "OK" to close the window.

After setting up, a Windows XP that supports multi-user login is successfully set up. When you log in to the host using the remote desktop client program (for hosts with Remote Desktop Web support installed, you can also log in through the browser). ), you can see that the system will never automatically log out as before.

In addition, after installing WinConnect Server, Remote Desktop will also support copying and pasting to perform file copying between the local host and the remote host. At the same time, because of the 128-bit encryption method, the communication between the client and the server is guaranteed. This is more reliable than the remote desktop's default use of clear text transmission account information. In addition, with the WinConnect Server console, we can also view all active users logged into the host; log out or disconnect remote users; use the Actions → Send Messages menu to send instant messages to remote users.

Tip: While experiencing the multi-user login brought by WinConnect Server, there is another news in the computer gamers of Microsoft Windows XP SP2 news discussion group: that is, after installing SP2 beta, users Just open the HKEY_LOCAL_MA-CHINE\\System\\CurrentControlSet\\Control\\Terminal Server\\Licensing Core branch in the Registry Editor, create a new DWord value called "EnableConcurrentSessions", set the key value to "1", you can Let Windows XP support two users. It seems that Windows XP SP2 is still quite exciting.

However, unlike the multi-user login implemented by WinConnect Server, when using this method to enable multi-user login, only two users can be logged in at the same time, and the login must be a different account.