Sunday, October 9, 2011

Other ways to remote into a windows machine

The kind of work that I do requires me to remote log into my Windows machine at a different location a lot. Every so often, I need to re-start the remote machine in order to be able to remote into it. I normally always used the 'Remote Desktop Connection' provided by Windows to log into my remote machine. But there are times when it fails to log in with an invalid error. During those times, there is a handy command that you can use which has always helped me to log into the remote machine without the need to restart it.

- Click Start Menu
- In the search bar, type 'cmd' to open a Command prompt
- Type the following: mstsc -v:<server-name> /console and VOILA!!