I have an ESXi server that runs a Win-7 virtual server on
it.
I use the Win 7 OS to run VSphere client so I can access the
ESXi server and tweak it if necessary
(this is the cheap homebrew solution)
I run Cygwin on the win-7 machine and I use ssh to pull
ports so I can attach to the server using Remote Desktop using a secure
connection.
Well today I ran into an issue. When I tried to log in I was met with this screen.
"The number of connections to this computer is limited
and all connections are in use right now"
I still had Cygwin command line access to the machine so I
looked around to see what I could do.
I found this post http://www.edugeek.net/forums/windows/31991-killing-remote-desktop-sessions.html
[1] wjere iser e-class suggested
using the following command line commands from Cygwin (though they are really
DOS commands)
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> quser
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This did list the connection as still open, it also showed
the ID
He also suggested using the following command to kill the
session
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> logoff 2
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(in my case the session id was 2 so I used 2 you may have
another session ID)
And when I ran this it seemed to work, at least re-running
the quser command did not bring anything up.
But when I tried to log back in I got the same results.
So I found this post http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5104523/how-to-execute-shutdown-command-from-cygwin-in-windows
[2] where a user Frankie suggested using the DOS shutdown command to reboot the
server
I ran the command
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> shutdown /r /t 0
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The server successfully rebooted and I was able to get in
and open a Remote Desktop session.
References
[1] Windows Thread, killing
remote desktop sessions? in Technical; hi all, anyone any ideas as to how I can
kill dead remote desktop sesisons?
Accessed 06/2013
[2] How to
execute shutdown command from cygwin in windows
Accessed 06/2013
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