WTS - Remote list connected users

Question

Some times, remote users don't disconnect and new connections fails with this message: The terminal server has exceeded the maximum number of allowed connections.

How can I list connected users remotelly to ask him for disconnect?

Answer 1

Take a look here http://serverfault.com/questions/3780/useful-commandline-commands-on-windows/4203#4203

Answer 2

You could use this nice little command line tool:

http://home.fnal.gov/~jklemenc/tslistusers.html

TSListUsers is a command line utility to list both the currently connected and disconnected users, hostname, IP address and RDP session number on either the local or a remote Windows Terminal Server/RDP Server To list the users, you need to have the following abilities: - NetBios access to the server - Permissions allowing you to Query RDP session information (if you can log into the TS, you should have this by default) - Terminal Services/RDP should be running on the target host

Usage:

• TSListUsers.exe /? to get the Help text
• TSListUsers.exe to query a target Terminal Server
• TSListUsers.exe with no paramters to query the local host

Answer 3

Use qwinsta (Query Windows Station) to list the sessions and usernames of your local or a remote terminal services host.

You can then also use rwinsta to disconnect or log off a session of your choice (given the permission to do so).

Answer 4

What operating system is this with? If you're using Windows 2003 Server or Windows 2008 Server and you have console access to the machine, you can see the currently logged in users under the 'Users' tab in Task Manager.

Answer 5

If you are on the same network you can install the server 2003 (or 2008) admin tools on your machine which will give you access to terminal services managment console, you can then connect to the server with that and see the logged on and disconnected users.

Alternatively if you need to get on the server, you can use the console access method in RDP. Just use this command from the run window:

mstsc /v:serverIP /admin

Once logged on to the console, you can open up the terminal services management console and see who is logged in and disconnect them.

Bear in mind that if anyone is currently logged into the console, either remotely or at the server, it will disconnect them.