Microsoft KB Archive/187021

= Client Reconnects to Non-Responding Application =

Article ID: 187021

Article Last Modified on 11/1/2006

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Windows NT Server 4.0, Terminal Server Edition

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This article was previously published under Q187021



MORE INFORMATION
If a user disconnects, either by choice or otherwise, the processes and all virtual memory space remain mapped to that users session ID. When the user logs back on, his or her domain/username is associated with the original session ID, which reconnects the user to his or her existing session, no matter what state that session was in when he or she disconnected.

For the user to establish a new session ID, log on to the Terminal Server as an Administrator and open the Terminal Server Administration console. Right-click that user's RPD-TCP connection and select Reset. This will force the client to be disconnected from the Terminal Server. After the client logs back on, he or she will have a new session established, which does not contain the application that is not responding.



SYMPTOMS
If you are in remote session running a single application, the application stops responding (hangs), and the client is disconnected, when the client reconnects, it will go right back to the session that was not responding.



STATUS
This behavior is by design.

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