Small utility created in VB6 that will scan your local subnet when launched, and show a list of RDP (Remote Desktop) servers, or any server listening on port 3389. It will show the servers IP Address and the Hostname. You can then double click on a entry to connect to that server. This is more like a frontend to MSTSC.EXE but shows a list of available servers, instead of requiring you to know the IP or hostname.

  RDP Server Client List (2.0 MiB, 282 Downloads)

Source Code to the RDP Server Client List program.

  RDP Server Client List Source Code (42.8 KiB, 294 Downloads)

This is not really a walkthrough, but more of an informative document.

If you want to remote control your Windows 2003 server you can enable ‘Remote Desktop’ on the server to have Administrative Control over it from a remote location. You can view the servers desktop and perform 90% of tasks from a remote location.

If you wish to enable this feature,

Go to; Start -> Settings -> Control Panel -> System

At the top click on the ‘Remote’ tab and then check the box labeled ‘Allow users to connect remotely to this computer’, a dialog popups up telling you that accounts with no password will not be able to access the server, click ‘Ok’ and then click ‘Ok’ again.

Administrators always have remote access to this machine.

If you wish to cross routers or firewalls with Remote Desktop you will need to forward or open port 3389 through the firewall/router as it uses this port for communications.

RDP (Remote Desktop Protocol) traffic is always encrypted.