Multiple Concurrent Terminal Server Sessions On Vista SP1

14 Jun

There are several patched terminal server dll’s floating around in the net to allow multiple concurrent Terminal Server session on Windows Vista with Service Pack 1. But they all have the same limitations:

It’s not possible to start a session to Localhost, this is because the Terminal Server client does a check to see if you are running Personal Terminal Server (Vista/XP) and denies Localhost or 127.0.0.1 if true (127.0.0.2 works though).

It’s not possible to start multiple sessions with the same user. The patch for Vista RTM did allow for this but in Service Pack 1 some Terminal Server code has moved to the Local Session Manager (lsm.exe) so we need to patch this file as well.

Offcourse we need to patch Terminal Server to allow unlimited session on Vista as well.

VPatch files are in the download link below.

Vista SP1 Patches (7237 downloads)

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13 Responses for "Multiple Concurrent Terminal Server Sessions On Vista SP1"

Loamx June 15th, 2008 at 2:42 1
Is for 32 bit or 64 bit version?
Remko June 15th, 2008 at 6:47 2
This is for 32 bit.
Mithrandir August 4th, 2008 at 16:31 3
Is there a 64 bit version available? Or instructions for manually patching the 64 bit versions? I don’t have the original 32 bit versions to patch, to then do a reverse engineer, to figure out how to mod the 64 bit versions.
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Ankit Duseja December 16th, 2008 at 10:47 5
Can we have two terminals using vista SP1
I mean can we get 2 monitors, 2 keyboards, 2 mouse, and a single CPU handling both the terminals?
While patching does it also effects the Vista in any other way?
And also which is the best OS available for using multiple terminals? Please provide few names so that I can pick 1 of the os later.
guest December 23rd, 2008 at 13:45 6
Anything available that works for x64?
anonymouse December 23rd, 2008 at 20:16 7
Whats its the problem with the patches found in thegreenbutton?
Last time i tried it worked with the same user.
anonymouse December 27th, 2008 at 3:10 8
any way to get sound working on vista Home Premium?
cocomiel December 29th, 2008 at 11:12 9
Someone patched the termsrv.dll for windows 7 beta and its possible to start multiple sessions with the same user.
abelurdis January 25th, 2009 at 1:07 10
for some reason I can´t get the same user to log in two differente sessions at the same time, it seems like the lsm.exe file is not working though i applied the patch on it, the file it generates has a 03/20/2008 date. Is there something I am doing wrong????
Can anybody send me a working lsm.exe file???
abelurdis@hotmail.com
Remko January 30th, 2009 at 10:16 11
@abelurdis: Check your (local) policy with gpedit.msc, check Administrative Templates | Windows Components | Terminal Server | Connections and disable restrict users to a single remote Terminal Services session.
Also check registry under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Terminal Server
EnableConcurrentSessions (1)
fSingleSessionPerUser (0)
Jay May 16th, 2009 at 5:13 12
You can replace the termsrv.dll for both 32/64 bit on Vista. See this post at http://oviya.me/?p=27
alpha January 15th, 2010 at 10:32 13
I try the patch_termsrv.exe in my vista sp1(which termsrv.dll version is 6.0.6001.18000), it pops msgbox “No suitable patches were found”.