If this can be done in a well-structured manner, it will be of great use to salespeople who wish to demo products without allowing the client to have the product, or to run it unsupervised. The document I am attempting to decipher is HOW TO: Shadow a Remote Desktop Session in Windows XP Professional.
Ingredients
What do you need? You need 1 Windows 2003 Server, 1 XP Professional computer, and then two computers, one for the client and one for the sales person. The tricky thing here is that actually making it work involves giving the salesperson and the client access to the Windows Server. That may not be so good. I wonder if you can just host it on the Win2003 Server instead.
Here's what happens:
Computer 1. Grab a terminal session from the Windows 2003 Server. From this session, open a desktop session to the XP professional computer. The real desktop of the XP pro computer will now be locked.
Computer 2. Grab a terminal session from the Windows 2003 Server. Locate the original session ID using the Terminal Serviecs Manager utility under Administrative tools. Open a command prompt and use the shadow command - e.g., if the ID is 2, then you type shadow 2 in the command prompt.
Crazy huh? To disconnect the shadow (computer 2) press CTRL-* on the numeric keypad. Computer 1 just logs out in the normal way.
Posted by torque at June 27, 2003 3:20 PM | TrackBackI think you have to analyse this from a practical perspective. If you have a company that has some really hot piece of software are you going to have on server per client? I think it would be easier to just put a subroutine in the code that disables the software after a period of time. If you were able to start multiple sessions per server then you might be in a better ball park, however being a windows environment, you would need heaps of resources (ie memory, cpu etc).
Hope I havent misread your proposal.
Posted by: Ed at October 23, 2003 5:14 AMPoint well taken. The fear, of course, by the said company, is that even with a subroutine, by giving out the executable you could potentially be hacked.
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