SBS 2003 shutsdown or disconnects users
I have a small business server 2003 that disconnects everybody from the server about every other day. In the system event log I am not seeing any errors but I am seeing at least 3 terminal service session login attempts every minute. The termservice event ID is 1012 "Remote session from client name exceeded maximum allowed login attempts. The session was forcibly terminated" I am guessing that with multiple failed login attempts the server is blocking all logins. I looked up the ID 1012 and it says that it is normal. I have never seen it before so it doesnt look very normal to me.
Esteban Blanco
Are your users logging off completely or just disconnecting?
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>>that leaves their connection open unless you set the limits in the RDP-Tcp settings under the RD Session Host Configuration.
An excellent point Esteban. I feel like I remember a setting (and cannot confirm right now), that limits each TS user to a SINGLE connection. Am correct when I say: this setting would force users to reconnect to a disconnected session, rather than create a new one?
Securing it with SSL: I have never done that, does that actually prevent logon attempts somehow, or just encrypt the data for transmission?
An excellent point Esteban. I feel like I remember a setting (and cannot confirm right now), that limits each TS user to a SINGLE connection. Am correct when I say: this setting would force users to reconnect to a disconnected session, rather than create a new one?
Securing it with SSL: I have never done that, does that actually prevent logon attempts somehow, or just encrypt the data for transmission?
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I have to apologize. I have been going by what my client tells me. They are not disconnecting from the server it is the exchange server that is dismounting. I finally got somebody to give me the right details to the problem. They can still access data on the drive they are losing Exchange. The problem was simple to fix. The exchange server was dismounting the databases because they exceeded 18 gigabytes in size. I went and modified the registry and increased the size limit from 18 to 40 gigabytes. That should take care of it.
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Once again, I apologize for not getting better details from my customer.
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I'm honestly no expert on what the "proper protocol" is, but I think in this case it would be to request to delete the question.
I wouldn't worry about it, but now you know for next time.
I'm honestly no expert on what the "proper protocol" is, but I think in this case it would be to request to delete the question.
I wouldn't worry about it, but now you know for next time.
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Thanks, I will do so in the future.
I have to agree with Korbus on this one. It is better to delete and just give an A to the accepted solution. This also helps people looking for answers so there is not confusion as of what they need to do to get something resolved. Jeff can have my points or whomever.
I'm in agreement as well --
@captjcret -- please click the "Request Attention" link just below your initial question and ask a moderator to delete this question.
Thanks.
Jeff
@captjcret -- please click the "Request Attention" link just below your initial question and ask a moderator to delete this question.
Thanks.
Jeff