This must be done each time I want to connect. How annoying is that? I am on a private network so why can't I allow incoming connections??? Browsing the net I found a great solution to this problem on fransblog, a simple patch which allows full connectivity. Just download the zip file below, extract and run a batch file as administrator.
Job done, it now works perfectly first time. Fransblog link no longer works, here is the Original Source. The only option, other than upgrading to an edition of Vista supporting Remote Desktop Access, is to install and use third party products that add the functionality to Vista's Home Basic and Home Premium editions. One of the programs that you can use for that purpose is the excellent TightVNC. The program is available for bit and bit versions of Windows, and supports all versions of the operating system from Windows to the very latest Windows 8 at the time of updating the article.
The current user properties can be edited during the installation of the program. You should supply a secure password, set a port or port range that should be used and edit the other options that are visible in the configuration menu.
I would advise to remove the option to disable remote keyboard and pointer view-mode only. The best way of getting started is to take a look at the documentation that is available on the project home page.
It helps you to get started with the application so that you can get started right away. Other sections of the site, like the FAQ page may also be of interest. Exactly, this article should be removed so nobody else searching for an rdp solution on Vista Home editions ends up wasting their time here.
So how is this a substitute for remote desktop? PcHelpWare is not Remote Desktop either. RealVNC either. Both give you only black screens or problems. And VNC is not remote desktop. You can also add a password to the VNC Server.
Has anyone got around the UAC problem when running any vnc server as an application not a service called user mode in some of the vnc flavours?? Client version of Windows, Remote Desktop Connection is installed by default in all — home or ultimate.
Server is what is missing. I guess the real answer is: Microsoft figured anyone stupid enough to buy a PC with a bundled operating system is too stupid to actually be able to use it.
Like remote desktop to my work pc and send emails so the bosses think I am at work when instead I am at the beach or home playing video games. It truly is my fault for buying a pc with Windows preinstalled. An alternative is to put it in the windows startup section.
And of course, firewall and router settings must allow connectivity. My laptop has a normal display, and my desktop is widescreen with aero and it will be displayed on the laptop — albeit with edge scrolling. Obviously, Remote Desktop does not work on Vista Home versions. Use RealVNC instead. Now someone hacked the termserv. Simply download termsrv. I was frustrated too that I could not remote from my laptop with vista premiun to my desktop with ultimate.
I could remote the other way of course. Last night I forwarded udp and tcp ports on my router using the desktops address and was able to remote to my desktop from my laptop using the free rdc download from microsoft. Hope this helps someone else. I forgot to tell you i have vista home premium. Someone can help me? If u r using a router ull need to fw the connection to ur machine. This one rocks for managing remote systems. Sure there are a few annoyances, like the nag screen and it only runs on windows but XP and Vista and some earlier , but, its the easiest to setup, can run as a service with a fixed password, or not.
Small 1 MB client module for quick, new client, support. Connections can change mid-stream, file transfer and remote presentation one-way sessions. It is a different license model; license is purchased once; period. Free RSS updates, no maintenance read support, who needs it anyway.
TeamViewer is great and I am using to create a VPN between two computers, but I want Remote Desktop for its ability to keep the machine locked and still be able to use the desktop. Then no one is messing with the mouse and keyboard while I am working.
Anyone found a hack to get it on Home Editions of Vista yet? I had the problem with Remote Desktop. After installing termsrv. I installed it and it fixed my issue. Make sure you have the latest DLL from the zip file. RDC is much faster and the colors are more vibrant! This is not an easy process so I recommend printing this. I took me about 7 hrs from researching and messing around with settings to get this to work.
I hope this works for you first time. This will give you an in-depth walk-through on making your remote desktop work. Then to top it all off, I needed a static IP to make it work. Both are false. Here is how I made it all work.
Download a patch for Windows Vista Home Premium. I believe the provider of my batch file was greenlight? Make sure to save this file in the temp file. Go to files on your computer ie. The Terminal Services service could not be started. Pausing 5 seconds to give service time to start listening Checking if Service is listening on port Service is not listening Done Press any key to continue. TravisP: Thank you for that tip, I have not tried to log on RD from an outside IP but plan to tommorrow to test the registry change you describe above.
Regarding my original problem: Turns out that I had a mistake in my username afterall, it had been renamed just like the problem and solution articulated in post There was a blank password assigned not allowed by RD preventing RD log on.
But who cares! It works, thanks for this fix. I managed to get this to work a few weeks back but have noticed some odd behaviour. User account specific functions and features are often mishandled by the OS. This all started after SP1 :. The relevant status code was The remote procedure call failed. I used this before SP1 and it worked like a charm.
Now after I got SP1 and have tried installing the new termsrv. It drove me crazy until I realized that was preventing the patch to work in my Vista Home Premium Spanish version. Thanks Frans for your efforts! I did the Run as Administrator before. I went into services. Also, I just re-ran the premium.
Ok, I now see what the problem is but have absolutely no idea what to do. It took at least two minutes for the bar to go all of the way across and then it brought up an error saying:.
Error The service did not respond to the start or control request in a timely fashion. Also, should Terminal Services be running and set to automatic as well?
Good idea? Not Terminal Services. That was already started and on automatic. But the Terminal Services Configuration was stopped, so I recently started it and made it also be automatic. What does it do? Do I need it? Should I stop it? Downloaded and ran termsrv. Thanks for the excellent work. You might need to use safe mode for this operation.
Now, in normal windows mode, check services. If you succeed, try running premium. And report back if it works. I tried deleting the termsrv. So I then typed in command prompt and ran these commands:. I then went into services. Just to clear a few things up, I am on Remote Desktop now. Also, for anyone wondering, I needed to restart for whatever reason after installing the patch in order for it to work. Now everything is working the same or better than it was than before SP1.
And thanks for all the advice you are spreading! Is it possible to connect to my main account, rather than having to create an entire new account for remote desktop to connect to? Yes, you can. I found out that the problem was caused by the fact that my main account did not have a password on it. Vista refuses to allow a connection if an account is passworded. Please help…. Error message : The remote session was disconnected because there are no Terminal Server client access licenses available for this computer.
Please contact the server administrator…. FYI, i could connect successfully everytime… this error happens recently…i wonder whether due to Windows Update?? Thanks Antonio for the advice about non-English versions. I just discovered yesterday that it was an issue with port , I had to change it. I just have one question, does this hack allow multiple concurrent connections? Thanks frans! I solved by opening premium. OMG, I battled this all day and then found this page.
It was fixed within 30 seconds after finding this page. I was frustrated too that I could not remote from my laptop with vista premiun to my desktop with ultimate. I could remote the other way of course. Last night I forwarded udp and tcp ports on my router using the desktops address and was able to remote to my desktop from my laptop using the free rdc download from microsoft.
Hope this helps someone else. I experienced the same things that most have indicated in this blog. The one thing that I notice most people are missing is: 1. You need to copy the new termsrv. In most cases you can not do this because the service is already running or you need to take ownership of the termsrv. Good luck and I it works for you. Need more details. Dear dude, Thanks so much for making this and putting it into a easy file to run.
I am running Skype autoanswer as a skype conference server for about 30 gaming buddies. This allows me to remote desktop multiple times into my vista basic box, running multiple skype instances, and manage the callers. AaronHolio, do not thank me, thank everyone who has contributed in making this hack possible. Will this work for home basic too, because i need to connect my mac to my widows machine for work.
How do add a Standard user to the remote users group under Vista Home premium? Currently, only admin level users can only connect through TS sessions. Thank you very much. I applied the batch file for Vista Home Premium in an SP1 installation, using the new file, followed the simple instructions on the beginning of this thread, and it worked like a charm I just need an extra step: allow port for the notebook in my router.
I am typing this from a remote connection TO my notebook!! Thank you again for your kindness in sharing your knowledge.
Hello everyone, I have a windows vista home premium SP1 computer and a macbook pro. I downloaded the RDC for mac. How can I connect to my windows vista home premium computer? I have tried the patch as described above. Maybe the patch does something else? What should I do? Hi, i followed the steps above and it works in my Vista Home Premium. However, I get no audio output device is installed. I wonder anyone having this problem. I get no audio either.
I have to disconnect the RDC and then it will work. You saved me a lot of trouble. Its stupid of microsoft of cutting their own products. Money sure can make do some crazy stuff…. I had to do small changes on the premium. Also I had to open manually the port in the windows firewall. Probably because of translations the patch did not open automaticaly. Marcelo, could you send me your modified premium.
And I found another little issue that may be related to this. I need to disconnect and reconnect the mouse. It drives me crazy! It works fine to me. Just used premium. Thank you so much for this… I thought I would have to buy ultimate for my new laptop but this saved me a lot of money! Just to note to others that may be having troubles with this, ensure you have downloaded Service Pack 1. Terminal Services never respond during the check when running the batch file.
As some of you found out, the batch files does only do well on english Vista versions. To make the batch files language independent, change the line with the icacls command to:. Thanks James!
That made all the difference for me and my swedish edition. After reading all of the comments I believe that I have a diferent problem. Login has administrator when i connect to a XP host i can do everything normal, but if I login has a user the shift key, the ctrl key and the selection with the mouse stop working. What can it be? I need to uninstall the remote desktop. I install it with the termsrv. Its a Vista Home Premium. Could you help me?
Have you got a hacked. Thanks Man!!! Your a life and time saver!!!! I also had a problem with Premium SP1. So basically what I did was:. Ran premium. Curse for a while that nothing is working 3. Went to Safe Mode 4.
Copied termsrv. Booted to normal windows mode and voila! Man, this is truly cool. After updating to SP1, I ran the batch file as administrator. The only thing I had to do afterwards was to enable port on the windows firewall. OK, after more experiments I have found out it is problem with Veriface face recognition on Lenovo notebooks which is part of Logon process.
This is my updated observation: 1. Yes, i forgot, i have the same problem when i try to show RDC to my friends who have Lenovo notebooks. You are my hero. Thank you soooo much for providing this. It worked flawlessly for me. Bye bye pcanywhere, VNC, and all other junk. I execute two times the premium. And now its also saying that the service is not listening even though i disabled UAC and set up the port forward on the router and put an exemption in the firewall.
Frans, thanks for this! Thank you for the updated files for Vista HP sp1. This was the first solution I have found that works. I am one very happy camper now, as I can remotely access my home pc now when I am on the road. Frans Thank you soo much. I tried a few of the other tweaks, and this one worked perfectly. Thanks again. Questions: Am I trying the correct computer in Remote Desktop?
I have the default Windows firewall, should I worry about the port being blocked there? Found this issue, it was my firewall. Also, my wireless network always shows disconnected even though it is connected.
How do I remove this patch from my system to see if the problem goes away? Well, i had the same problem when i tried to apply this patch without SP1, did you do the same? Anyway, i did a system restore and the problem got solved.
Router is setup to forward to go to Vista machine. But what about concurrent sessions? I had a patch that enabled this pre-sp1, but after installing the service pack, it stopped working. Does this patch allow concurrent sessions? I think it is because the script cannot shutdown the service properly.
Tried this on a clean install of Dutch Home Premium sp1. After applying the patch some kind of hosts process crashes, followed by the dns client service, local network awareness service and the terminal services service.
I assume that the original file cannot be just copied back to system By the default users with no password blank cannot login via RDP. This can be changed in local security policy. Create a separate user for RDP. It should be in admin or in the RDP group. To allow for auto login with the user with blank pwd, go to local security policy and deny local login for the rdp user. This user will now not appear in the login screen.
Is there a solution to this probelm? I did this on Vista Home Premium.. Any help or links to a good site on the whole shebang would be nice. Hi — Thanks for coming out with this patch. I have a new laptop and followed the directions, but it still will not let me connect.
I downloaded the files from the link from the article at the top as well as the one way at the top. The firewall port with tcp was added. I am on a hardwire ethernet with a computer that can connect. Is there some goofy thing I need to disable? What am I missing? Is there some debugging I can do?
At the end of the batch file it looks to see if the tcp port is listening. Did it report that it was working? I now have the hacked Termsrv. However, on my other PC, when I fire up RD, it says that there are no computers on the workgroup containing terminal servers. Have you tried just using the IP?
I figured out my problem. The RDC has an advanced tab that has server authenitication in it. I am not sure if I needed this fix or not since I only use it as a client. The port addition information in the firewall was useful, though.
First of all thanks to all of you who develped the patch, put on network and then are supporting the process of applying including those who reply on this list. I have vista Home premium with sp1. I created new account on Vista machine with Administrator privilages. I can now remote to my desktop home prem sp1 from my laptop xp pro sp3. If you do this, can you see the Vista login screen coming on your XP machine?
My problem however is that when I connect via mstsc. I am wondering if its the windows policy that I must adjust so it will be me get in remotely. You guys are amazing! Then I found you guys. Thank you, thank you, thank you. I live in a small apartment, and my computer tower based is across the room where i can see it.
I should spend time on google before i go start scewing with networking properties. Done all the steps with no error message. But i cannot see the options which are available on vista ultimate for remote desktop. Any help would be appreciated.
Incase you are having any of the troubles I was having this is what I did:. You will then need to add a service: in this case we are adding a service for incoming connections on TCP starting and ending on Then, download the file at the top of this page and follow the instuctions.
This runs a script which enables remote desktop connection listening by replacing an original. To check this is all OK you can type netstat -a into cmd and this will list what all the ports are up to.
I then went to dyndns. When you run remote desktop connection on your phone it wants to know 4 things: Computer — this is the computer you want to connect to which I am identifiying by the dyndns name myhomecomputer. Domain — I left this blank but if I do need to fill it in for any reason I will be back here to tell you all about it.
Since you have done so much research already, could you help me figure out how to get audio from RDP connection? I managed to get my vista premium act as a Host and I am able to use my xp desktop client to connect to vista premium host machine. Only problem, no audio even though I checked the bring over audio option on the client. There is a setting called Audio Mapping that needs to be enabled and its on the terminal server config.
Unfortunately, vista premium does not have that utility. Nor do I know which registry entry to change for this. Any idea? I would love to get the Audio brought over from my vista premium host. I do use Orb for media streaming to my xbox. Still thought it would be nice to get the audio mapping working. Guess what I have now is better than nothing after all…. Hi to all the developers and patch makes you work is great although after reading through this thread for 3 days now and trying all the techniques mentioned i cant seem to get remote desktop working.
Have you tried changing you passwords on both machines and try that? I have read somewherre that unless you have password protected accounts which use the login screen you will not be able to use remote desktop — not sure if this is true as I do use password protected accounts.
Oh update on using remote desktop from a mobile phone htc tytn2 I have not used it on GPRS and it it amazingly fast! U can even use accounts without any password to connect to RDP. Now u can login with blank password.
Hi cres yes i have tried with and without passwords i have also tried different usernames and different passwords i am lost with ideas now. The patch works on all versions of windows vista just as long as you apply it in safe mode then is all good.
Vista home premium sp1; trying to connect from vista home basic. Installed the patch, created a new admin user with a password. When I try to log in with that user the screen flashes, but then nothing happens… it just goes back to the front screen of the RDP client. I got it work on my Vista 64bit.
Get yourself a free no-ip account for ease from no-ip. The key is you need your internet IP address and not your network ip. Hi Jonte. Thanks, yes I have that file, but I need the orginal termsrv. Click the local resourses tab there is may be local drives there or click the more button and tick the drives on the connecting pc you want to include.
Now when you connect the remote PC will have in my computer its drives and your drives on your connecting pc. BUT it can be slow. I have installed the termsrv. The port is set up fine also, as it claims also that it can listen through that. What is going on? It would be very useful if you could release this same package with the terminal.
I just got a new 64 bit machine and really would appreciate this working. Would anyone care to elaborate on step 4 for me? I was fine with all the other steps but am clueless here What is and how do I run a batch file for my edition of Vista?
Thanks so much. I think I have a voodoo system here. I have a Home Premium 64 machine on which this worked. No matter which way I go about applying the hack, the result is the same: the termserv service quits after a few seconds of being launched.
This is a great hack and all comments here were a BIG help. Could it be because certain functions are locked out of vista home premium, and I would need a seperate hack to file share through RDC? I wonder. I tried manually starting the 2 terminal services services and still, netstat -a does not show it yes i have it on port in registry. I got the error and tried to fix it , found an article that stated that you should set the service back to Network service without password.
This does not work for Vista Home Premium 64bit. Only 32bit. So i replaced to old. Now when i try to connect from my xbox to my pc it doenst work. And i think it has something to do with the register i did read it somewhere..
My sessions keep freezing up. Is anyone else experiencing these problems? Can anyone confirm if they have gotten this to work after the latest batch of MS updates as of Oct. I have premium sp1 on my desktop pc and followed the posted steps and did a little bit more. After that, it worked like charm.
Extra steps that I did: 1. Assigned my desktop pc that is wire connected to my router static IP address within the range allowed by my router.
Configured my router to forward port to my desktop pc that is wire connected to my router. After that, I could remote log into my desktop from my laptop OS xp within my home network. Also make sure you have the port allowed in firewall. I hope that some day there will be a free alternative to RDP that will use the same protocol so that clients can interchange between the free and the Microsoft versions without any difficulties, and then it will be so easy to get remote control support on any Windows machine.
With sp1 ultimate and the good dll, in french. But i expect what they do. The best hack i see since a long time.
Felicitation to your team. Beware — I downloaded the patch and happily used it for a couple of months — fantastic! I work as a programmer so I am pretty concious of MS updates etc, which I always manually update. However MS are doing it they managed to sneak in some code that checked the termsrv.
After several attempts to revert to the original version — all which failed, I restored my original system from backups. I am in no way trying to scare users into not installing — just make DAMN sure you have a complete backup of your system. I reckon the check may have come in with the Malicious Software Removal code. Hey Frans, thanks for the amazing tutorial if i can call it that but i seem to be having a problem i think because i am kind of green to this service.
Only trustedInstaller has full control of it. Great hack, my hats off to you. I have way to many laptops and desktops in this house to not have RDP. If you find a 64 hack please post it as I have a 64 bit laptop also. This worked like a champ for me until recently. Any ideas how to fix this? The error message I get during log on is:. If I change his account type to be an ADministrator, I can then log on remotely. Of course I would prefer to not give him admin priveleges just to allow me to log in remotely to help him fix problems….
I did use this hack in the past, but due to an automatic Windows update , the hack stopped working, i. However looking at the recent comments, by David Martin, I feel a bit encouraged now. Does the hack work for Vista premium 64 bit? If so what updated level of Windows should I be at?
Does it matter? Right click computer and select manage. Hope this helps. Shantanu — thanks for the tip, but on my Vista Home Premium installation there is no Users and Groups option under the Computer Management console. And if everything fails, try UltraVNC, its superb, with scaling and right connection settings, it can do wonders. Hi ive tried to enable remote desktop on Vista HP but it does not work. Any ideas? I tried the hack for Home Premium SP1.
Is it not supposed to be there after running the hack, or is something wrong? No this will not happen. I think we are making it more complicated than required. I think the following steps should make file transfers no problem. Give the newly created username on PC1 Admin rights. You can also map a drive, the same way. Resize this window, move it to the left of the Screen.
Open C drive on local PC, resize, and move it to the right of the screen. Voila, copy from first screen to second, or vice-versa. Did everything, and no luck. No control, just a view of the desktop. Have to click the Take Control button, and then everything was fine.
Worked this way without the patch, since I had rolled everything back. Event Xml:. Addendum to last post; This only happens when logging on through RDC, once logged off everything is fine.
This happens when the account is logged in as a single user or two, makes no differents. Wondering if this has anything to do with the modded DLL? What a great help!! I used Windows a lot, when i first visited this blog, and today, around a year since then, Normally i work on Ubuntu linux. And let me tell you, linux rocks. Just like most people i also used to think its difficult, but now i feel it interesting, a way to learn things, and most importantly, do what YOU want to do, not what the OS wants to do.
But, linux thinks its your car, and YOU should decide how it should work. And, linux provides you with freedom. All the best. I can connect to the Vista box at home when I disable the Windows firewall on the Vista box, but not when the firewall is enabled.
Any suggestions? I have modified the termsrv. Is it only possible within the same wifi network or can i connect to it from anywhere in the world? Help would be appreciated. This patch only enables RDC on your computer.
If you want to use any non-administrator account from remote, add the account to the Remote Desktop users user group.
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