We have two servers running Windows Server 2008 R2 Remote Desktop Services. On both servers the Print Spooler service kept randomly stopping. In the Application event log, we noticed this error keep appearing: Faulting application name: spoolsv.exe, version 6.1.7600.16385, timestamp: 0x4a5bd3d1 Faulting module name: ntdll.dll, version 6.1.7600.16385, timestamp: 0x4a5bd3d1 Exception code: 0xc0000374 After trying to
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Category: Thin Client
Login Script Not Running Windows 2008 Remote Desktop Services (Terminal Services)
Call today: User has not got any network drives when logging on to the thin clients. The setup for this is as follows: 2 x Windows Server 2008 R2 servers running RDS, DNS round robin, load balanced. 56 x ThinStation 2.2.2 clients A VBS login script is applied using Group Policy. All student users have
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Reconnect Just Flickers & Returns
After all that work sorting out my user profiles, and reducing my logon time as far as I can (record is 12 seconds from entering password to a working desktop :-) ) I have found another problem. The clients are booting up fine, pulling the config files from the network and running the right applications.
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Group Policy Client Service Failed the Login: Access is Denied
This error has been annoying me for nearly 4 hours now. We have a terminal server for students. All students use a mandatory profile, located on a share so that it can be accessed by all of the servers in the farm. I thought this would be easy to set up, so I did the
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ThinStation – Sound & USB!!
Just sorted sound and USB device access with my ThinStation deployment. I inserted the following lines to the thinstation.conf.buildtime file and it all started to work. USB_STORAGE_SYNC=On USB_MOUNT_DIR=”/mnt/usbdevice” SESSION_0_RDESKTOP_OPTIONS=”-r disk:USBDrive=/mnt/usbdevice -r sound:local” Make sure too that you have the necessary modules included for storage device and USB access in the build.conf file. 5 people found
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ThinStation Installer – Working!!
As I am currently unable to get my Windows Installations to work correctly over RIS (note: this means the last attempt didn’t work…), I thought I would give a go to installing ThinStation using RIS, and for machine without PXE boot roms, a USB stick installer. I thought from the outset that this would be
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