Meshcentral: connect to a terminalserver user session - or switch between sessions...

[wvt-adm]

question - it is possible to access on a terminalserver to a user session? or switch from one to an other session?

thanks and best regards

am

[krayon007]

Which OS are you referring to?

[wvt-adm]

the meshcentral server is a windows 2019 server with german language pack…

the machine that i will remote is a windows 10 prof 64bit machine
and a windows 2012 r2 64bit terminalserver

best regards and thanks for your help

(need access to the server – let me know!)

[MailYouLater]

This is a duplicate of #38.

[krayon007]

Oh wait, so you guys are referring to terminal services sessions, as in Microsoft Terminal Services, and not about the terminal console (command prompt) being connected as a user session as opposed to LocalSystem?

[wvt-adm]

yes exactly, the point is that you can also help customers who work on a terminal server. but you also have to be able to access their session. at splashtop i personally find the implementation to be the most successful - i can access each session via dropdown menu and even if there are several monitors that change with a click... ect. ect.

[d1m3ch]

+1.

You can run multiple meshagents as a logon script. Each time a user logs in it will connect to the server and show their session.

I have not figured out how to change the display name in the server though. Any ideas?

[Ylianst]

@krayon007 is hard at work on a way to get sessions as the currently logged in user. No need for running many agents.

[d1m3ch]

kewl! Happen to have an ETA on this feature?

Thanks! : )

[Ylianst]

If all goes well, next week we will have the the ability to open a terminal session under the currently logged in user for Windows. This is already available on Linux, you right click the terminal "Connect" button and select "User Shell".

[d1m3ch]

Hi, i wonder, will this issue be closed when it is available for us to start using? Also, how should i deploy it?

[krayon007]

This feature is already live for both Windows and Linux :) You right click on the connect button, and you'll see a menu item for User Shell.

[krayon007]

If you are referring to KVM sessions as particular users, we just need to update the UI to allow user selection, but the feature is working.

[Ylianst]

As indicated by @krayon007, you can now right click on the Terminal "Connect" button to see different connection options. We added this for Linux a month back, but just added this for Windows in the last few days so you need the latest MeshCentral server to do this for Windows.