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When I am at a certain location, I like to be able to remote login to a machine on my home network. This machine is running XP Pro SP3 and is a virtual machine running inside my HTPC (my WHS is also a virtual machine on the same host).
I have no problem making the connection, but if I leave the connection idle for 10 minutes I lose the connection to the XP machine and have to log in again. I do not lose the connection to WHS itself (at least not this quickly).
Is this normal? When I am home, I can log into this XP machine using normal Remeote Desktop (not via WHS) and I can stay logged in indefinitely.
David Wilkinson | Visual C++ MVPWednesday, December 15, 2010 7:20 PM
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When I am at a certain location, I like to be able to remote login to a machine on my home network. This machine is running XP Pro SP3 and is a virtual machine running inside my HTPC (my WHS is also a virtual machine on the same host).
Nobody else has this problem? It's extremely annoying...
I have no problem making the connection, but if I leave the connection idle for 10 minutes I lose the connection to the XP machine and have to log in again. I do not lose the connection to WHS itself (at least not this quickly).
Is this normal? When I am home, I can log into this XP machine using normal Remeote Desktop (not via WHS) and I can stay logged in indefinitely.
David Wilkinson | Visual C++ MVPFriday, December 17, 2010 12:54 PM -
You might try disabling TCP offloading your host PC and on whateveryou're trying to connect from. I've seen some RDP connection problemsin rare cases like that...--Bob ComerOn Fri, 17 Dec 2010 12:54:30 +0000, davewilk [MVP] wrote:>> When I am at a certain location, I like to be able to remote login to a machine on my home network. This machine is running XP Pro SP3 and is a virtual machine running inside my HTPC (my WHS is also a virtual machine on the same host).>>>> I have no problem making the connection, but if I leave the connection idle for 10 minutes I lose the connection to the XP machine and have to log in again. I do not lose the connection to WHS itself (at least not this quickly).>>>> Is this normal? When I am home, I can log into this XP machine using normal Remeote Desktop (not via WHS) and I can stay logged in indefinitely.>>Nobody else has this problem? It's extremely annoying...>
Bob Comer - Microsoft MVP Virtual MachineFriday, December 17, 2010 1:52 PM -
Is that a time, in which a password protected screen saver or energy saving kicks in on the XP machine?
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OlafFriday, December 17, 2010 3:50 PMModerator -
You might try disabling TCP offloading your host PC and on whatever
So you think that this might have to do with the fact that the XP machine I am logging in to is a virtual machine (as is my WHS)?
you're trying to connect from. I've seen some RDP connection problems
in rare cases like that...
Both are running under VMWare Server 2 on a Windows 7 host. As I said previously, I do not have any trouble maintaining an ordinary RDP connection to the XP machine when I am at home (using another Windows 7 machine as the RDP client).
If I were to try disabling TCP offloading, where (and how) should I be doing it (there are so many machines involved here...)? In the remote location (where I am right now), the client computer is an XP SP3 machine which I do not have total control over (it is a corporate machine on a domain...).
David Wilkinson | Visual C++ MVPFriday, December 17, 2010 3:53 PM -
>So you think that this might have to do with the fact that the XP machine I am logging in to is a virtual machine (as is my WHS)?Not at all -- it's a known RDP problem, but having it in a VM wouldexacerbate the problem as most of the VM solution don't handleoffloading very well. (if at all)>Both are running under VMWare Server 2 on a Windows 7 host. As I said previously, I do not have any trouble maintaining an ordinary RDP connection to the XP machine when I am at home (using another Windows 7 machine as the RDP client).Less latency and higher speed connection on the local LAN..>If I were to try disabling TCP offloading, where (and how) should I be doing it (there are so many machines involved here...)? In the remote location (where I am right now), the client computer is an XP SP3 machine which I do not have total control over (it is a corporate machine on a domain...).It's in the hardware settings for the NIC, and it should be on thehost machine for the VM's, and your remote location machine.
Bob Comer - Microsoft MVP Virtual MachineFriday, December 17, 2010 4:10 PM -
It's in the hardware settings for the NIC, and it should be on the
On the client XP machine where I am now, I did not find anything in the NIC settings, but I have disabled the TCP offloading as described here:
host machine for the VM's, and your remote location machine.
http://www.windowsreference.com/networking/enabledisable-tcp-task-offloading-to-nic-in-windows/
However, it did not make any difference.
Logging into the VM host is not possible right now for WAF reasons (it is our HTPC), but I'll try it when I get home.
David Wilkinson | Visual C++ MVPFriday, December 17, 2010 6:22 PM