>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 would
exacerbate the problem as most of the VM solution don't handle
offloading 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 the
host machine for the VM's, and your remote location machine.
Bob Comer - Microsoft MVP Virtual Machine
