RDP Connection to MS Windows 2003 /Console

You can always connect to the console session even if you get the following message on the standard sessions:

“The terminal server has exceeded the maximum number of allowed connections.”

With Windows 2003 you can now connect to the console session of a server meaning you actually have 3 connections available when running in “Remote Administration” mode.

To connect to the console session you start the client from a command prompt (or create a shortcut) or directly under Start Menu -> Run with the following command:

mstsc /console

You then select server name etc. as usual when the client starts.

Note that mstsc on Windows XP is located in:
“%Windows%\System32\mstsc”

And the 5.2 download installs in:
“%ProgramFiles%\Remote Desktop\mstsc”

VirtualBox on Redhat(Fedora) Machines

This is a tutorial on how to get VirtualBox up and running on redhat flavoured machines To carry out the following task you have to have root access on the host Machine

1.) Get the VirtualBox package from the VirtualBox website for Fedora and install it.

rpm -ivh VirtualBox-1xxx.xxxx.xxxx_fedoraX-X.ixxx.rpm

2.) Get the kernel-devel package:
sudo yum install make automake autoconf gcc kernel-devel

3.) Run the setup file for VirtualBox:
sudo /etc/init.d/vboxdrv setup

4.) Add yourself to the “vboxusers” group (don’t forget the “-” dash!):
su -
usermod -G vboxusers -a username
exit
5.) Run, and enjoy!
VirtualBox

I would strongly suggest to disable compiz while using virtualbox. I have noticed that things get Exceptionally slow if turned on

Enjoy!!!