Vista or Server 2003 for media server?

[flyswatta]

Sorry - I was meaning XP Pro -> XP Pro. The destination must be logged in though. I seem to remember it doesn't work when the destination machine is at the login stage, i.e., there's no console.

Hmm, that's what I'm doing. XP Pro => XP Pro. (I'll use XP1 and XP2 to refer to them) I originally had the login automatic by using 'control userpasswords2', but since I read your post, I found another KB article where you hack the registry and enter the password, then set autologin to 1 (true).

In either configuration, when I use mstsc with the /console switch from XP1 to XP2, it still locks the screen on XP2 when I initially make the connection. I didn't think it was possible to use mstsc to get to terminal 0 (err, console 0 in M$ terminology). Reading your comments has given me some hope that it is possible, I'm just trying to figure out where I'm going wrong...

[capone]

Sorry - I was meaning XP Pro -> XP Pro. The destination must be logged in though. I seem to remember it doesn't work when the destination machine is at the login stage, i.e., there's no console.

On both machines (in this case, xp pro to xp home), both are logged in, and I used the auto-login w/ the tweak tools to pass the PW. Both are logged in when I connect. When I disconnect, it drops the pvr/xp home system to the login screen still.

Until now, I felt like it was an understandable security feature, but I'm now surprised to hear there's some work-around possible.