[python-win32] Enable/disable Remote Desktop via Python

Tim Roberts timr at probo.com
Fri May 14 19:07:57 CEST 2010


Tony Cappellini wrote:
> under Control Panel/System/Remote - there is a check box to
> enable/disable Remote Desktop access.
>
> I need to toggle this- so I don't get disconnected by other users,
> when I'm connected to a system remotely.
>   

Are you saying that when you are remotely logged into system X, you want
to disable Remote Desktop access to system X?  Isn't that going to
prevent YOU from accessing system X as well?  It's a little like sawing
off the tree branch on which you are sitting, isn't it?

> The desktop version of Windows- still doesn't allow concurrent
> multi-user logins in the year 2010.
>   

Yes, but FWIW, this is an artificial licensing restriction, not a
technical restriction.

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Tim Roberts, timr at probo.com
Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.



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