This is the fourth part of the Availability Anywhere series. For your convenience you can find other parts in the table of contents in Part 1 – Connecting to SSH tunnel automatically in Windows
Sometimes when I RDP into other machine and forget to close the connection gently (I put my client to sleep or my VPN gets terminated), I cannot log into the machine anymore. It hangs on the login screen with picture like this:
I can log into the machine using RemoteApp Terminal Services, SSH into it or connect over PS Remoting but I cannot log into existing session opened via RDP previously.
The reason for that is LogonUi.exe process which hangs. I believe this has something to do with HP fingerprint reader but I didn’t confirm that.
So what to do in case of an error like this? Simply open another session using RemoteApp TS and run CMD (or SSH/PS Remote into the machine) and try killing the process with
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taskkill /F /IM LogonUi.exe |
Then you should be able to log into the session again. Obviously, this requires some alternative connection to the machine but this was covered in last weeks.