Content:: Dropping a terminal services connection
Dropping a terminal services connection
By default windows only allows two remote terminal service connections to a system. You have probably seen an error message stating "The Terminal Server has exceeded the maximum number of allowed connection.". If a connection drops it might not be possible to log back in until the connection drops. When you are in a hurry it is useful to know how to drop the disconnected users.
We can use the "qinsta" command to view a list of the users the system currently recognizes. # qwinsta
# qwinsta /server:<IP Address>
Looking at the "STATE" we can see Joe is listed as "Disc" meaning the user is disconnected. To clear this user we can use the "rwinsta" command to do this.
Example commands :
rwinsta <sessionname> <id> /server:<ip or winname>
rwinsta rdp-tcp#01 1 /server:192.168.1.1
rwinsta 1 /server:<IP Address> Running "qwinsta" again we can see Joe has successfully been disconnected. # qwinsta /server:<IP Address>
By default windows only allows two remote terminal service connections to a system. You have probably seen an error message stating "The Terminal Server has exceeded the maximum number of allowed connection.". If a connection drops it might not be possible to log back in until the connection drops. When you are in a hurry it is useful to know how to drop the disconnected users.
We can use the "qinsta" command to view a list of the users the system currently recognizes. # qwinsta
# qwinsta /server:<IP Address>
SESSIONNAME USERNAME ID STATE TYPE DEVICE
console 0 Conn wdcon
rdp-tcp 65536 Listen rdpwd
rdp-tcp#65 Jack 2 Active rdpwd
Joe 1 Disc rdpwd
Looking at the "STATE" we can see Joe is listed as "Disc" meaning the user is disconnected. To clear this user we can use the "rwinsta" command to do this.
Example commands :
rwinsta <sessionname> <id> /server:<ip or winname>
rwinsta rdp-tcp#01 1 /server:192.168.1.1
rwinsta 1 /server:<IP Address> Running "qwinsta" again we can see Joe has successfully been disconnected. # qwinsta /server:<IP Address>
SESSIONNAME USERNAME ID STATE TYPE DEVICE console 0 Conn wdcon rdp-tcp 65536 Listen rdpwd rdp-tcp#65 Jack 2 Active rdpwd
