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re: Remote Desktop Utter Ridiculousness
Thursday, September 7, 2006 at 12:43 pm
Windows Server 2003 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Jeff
(957 messages posted)
Yes, there's a "big" difference between disconnecting a remote session and logging
off a user.
Maybe they should include a special warning for situations such as yours.
Perhaps a warning such as "Are you sure you want to log off - or would you rather
disconnect your remote session" might suffice.
Jeff
On Thursday, September 7, 2006 at 10:49 am, Keith Doyle wrote:
>The brilliant minds from Redmond have come up with about the most ridiculous
combination
>of misfeatures I've seen yet:
>
>I logged into a W2003 server via remote desktop (from XP, but I doubt that matters).
> Started a long-running program from the cmd line. I had noticed before that if
>you click on the X box in the remote desktop bar, it will "warn" you that programs
>will continue to run while you are disconnected but you can log in again to reconnect
>to them. Great. Later, I had the occasion to want to do this again, and remembering
>that it was "smart" enough to leave things running, I selected start->log off, without
>realizing the behaviour is a little bit different. Got an "are you sure you want
>to log off" message to which I answered Yes. Later I discovered that logging off
>did *not* leave the programs running like when I just used the "close" box, but
it
>killed the process without telling me about it (I *did* want to "disconnect", I
just
>*didn't* want processes to be terminated, so my answer to the log off question seems
>reasonable to me). I gather now that there is a difference between "disconnect"
>and "log off" but the distinction not all that obvious...
>
>Absolutely brilliant. When the OS is going to *kill* processes on a disconnect-like
>operation, it doesn't warn you. Only when it is *not* going to kill processes on
>such an operation do you get warned. Ya gotta love it...
>To err is human. To really foul things up takes a Microsoft
>
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