How to get rdp on vista home premium

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If it is true, windows may not be able to detect compatible audio driver on the Mobile. Contact the Mobile manufacture for further information. I was able to RDP from the Mobile to my laptop running Visa Business 32 Bit, and the device was able to bring the sound from the laptop to the device This is a limitation set by Microsoft. Are you sure this is accurate? Office Office Exchange Server. Not an IT pro?

Resources for IT Professionals. Windows Remote Assistance can be used to access the Home editions of Vista, but you cannot use the Home editions to connect to other computers!

So are you totally frustrated, yet? I think there are a lot of other Windows Vista Home edition users that are in the same boat. The good news is that there are several third party applications that will work for you. I would suggest that you give one of these a try.

And from Going back to step 5 system properties , my RDC doesnt give me the option to select users. The whole bottom portion of the screen isnt even on my systems properties screen.

Please help. Click on the Start Orb. In the search box type winver and then press Enter. The office PC is on a basic Ethernet network behind a Linksys router. I know — I think I know! You have just saved me some dinero as I was going to pay for some IT consultant snot nose to come and set this up for me. Man you are awesome! I was getting sick of this, I couldnt get it to work on Vista. Im used to Windows XP you know. Anyways I might be switching to windows 7 soon.

Thanks anyways, you saved my day! You already know thus significantly relating to this topic, produced me personally believe it from a lot of various angles. Your individual stuffs great. Always handle it up! Simply wanna comment that you have a very nice internet site , I the style and design it really stands out. Ruth: command prompt is the text-only mode of using a computer operating system. But no: I do not know of any hacks yet that would work with the soon-to-be-released SP1 upgraded versions of Vista.

Lets see and wait. Hmm… whats wrong with your installment trinh, is that you forgot to run it as administrator. First disable uac, click the start button, then click your picture in the top right of the menu whatever picture you chose, flower, chess, fireworks.. Once you have clicked start, your login icon, then the last sentence on the right you will see Turn User Account Control on or off choose this option.

Note that if you dont have a check in the UAC then continue to Step 2 without restarting. You will have to restart if you removed the check from UAC.

After restart continue to step 2. Click on start round little windows icon in bottom left of your screen , Click on text control panel ,Top left click on text Control Home.

Once in Security: Far right, second category, last choice, click Allow a program through windows firewall Windows firewall settings will come up. Close to the bottom you will see some buttons, the second button close to the bottom is Add Port click. Add port box will popup, enter the following. Once at black screen called command prompt. We need to navigate to the file.

The way we will do that is copying the address once we have unziped the file. I have found the eaisest way to navigate to the file is when you unzip the file you downloaded choose for it to open the folder that the file you unziped is in. Or you can open Windows Explorer start, computer click. Once you are in the folder with the unzipped term files click in the address bar just like in internet explorer and copy the directory link.. Press enter on the keyboard. If you follow these directions exactly and get no errors and still cannot use Remote desktop, you may one of the following issues.

Your router is blocking RDC and you need to allow it Your software firewall is blocking it like Zonealarm Or you have corrupted files All of which are out of the scope of this article of which i have no more time for sorry.

God Bless. If this doesnt work dont email me and yell…pray to Jesus Christ for wisdom. Thats what i did. Corrosione — thanks, your instructions are probably most detailed process description so far. No news on a SP1 hack yet, though. I tried, but some other prob When i enter my Credentials on the other computer, from which im trying to access my own computer, both running Home Premium , it says that login failed. Any guesses? I think there are people in this thread who claim to have successfully patched SP1 could anyone verify this works?

Of course, now I need to go back and relocate the docs and bits and post it. Open the Start menu and look for the Command Prompt icon. Now use usual Cut,Copy,Paste procedures. Roderic Dohleman or Frans, quick question… all setup worked fine, no errors, I get to the logon screen, but it says wrong username or pwd … I checked several times, and no luck… any ideas?

I only have 1 username defined, and it works ok to login with it on the vista home premium itself. Dear Andrei, I did have the same problem as you, but fixed mine out. Now,note the name of that folder and try it as your logon at Remote Desktop Logon.

All the best…. However the messages on that forum seem to confirm that it does work. Cheers, Andrei. Shantanu, Andrei — this looks promising, thank you very much. So, we can all be confident and go along with the SP1 update when it comes available through the Windows Update? Shantanu: well, I decided to go for it in any case SP1 arrived today into Update service ; after this we will at least have more people trying to figure this thing out, I guess.

Andrei PS. Hey people, i am on a college network which blocks sharing sites like rapidshare. Thank you all for the valued info. Using Home Premium SP1… the patched dll works great. Does anyone have any advice for what to do when your normal passwd does not work??

Ive got RD to connect just fine but RD does not seem to see up to date user names. I does find the admin name correctly but does not accept the correct password. Could I have some password I dont know about. I turned it off for the initial install of termsrv. Thanks for this. I downloaded the patched. Right- UAC does not need to be disabled to do any of this. But still having a similar problem with the RD log on password prompt. Very similar to post 43 but the password is the issue.

THe username matches. I do not have a password assigned to the administrator user yet it wants a password i dont knoe. I changed user passwords back and fourth on the remote machine to no avail. Does anybody know how to determine or reset this unknown password on the remote computer. I have spent some time reinstalling with sp1 and non sp1 batch file so I have determined that that this is not the issue. My hunch at this point is that there is some setting in Windows that is blocking remote access from outside the network, but I have no idea where to start looking.

Anyone else have a problem with the terminal services service not starting? Is this supposed to work on Home Premium x64? 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.