Yes, you definitely can use RDP (Terminal Services) into a VM running
on Virtual Server, there is no requirement to only use VMRC.

>I do have Remote Desktop enabled in the VM. The firewall is NOT running. I
>have been trying to get this going for a week now and I am running out of
>ideas.

I would suspect a firewall somewhere is getting you, but it's real
hard to tell.

First thing I'd try is a NETSTAT -a in the VM to see if it's even
listening on the normal RDP port 3389.

--
Bob Comer


On Tue, 1 Apr 2008 10:55:01 -0700, JohnnyF
<JohnnyF@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

>I have a 2003 Server running Virtual Server 2005 with all updates.
>
>I have only one Virtual Machine running. The VM is a server 2003 machine.
>The VM 2003 Server can access the network and Internet. I can ping it from
>desktops on the LAN and other servers. Everything seems to be working as
>expected except one thing. I cannot Remote Desktop (Terminal Service) into
>the VM from any PCs.
>
>When I am at my desk I Remote Desktop into all my other servers to do Admin
>stuff. When I try to get into this VM I get "This computer can not connect
>to the remote computer". I can ping the VM and from Windows Explorer I can
>view the VMs files. (\\util2\c$) I have tried it from 3 or 4 different
>machines.
>
>So I guess the first thing to ask is, Can you Terminal Service into a VM or
>do you HAVE to use the VMRC?
>
>I do have Remote Desktop enabled in the VM. The firewall is NOT running. I
>have been trying to get this going for a week now and I am running out of
>ideas.
>
>Any thoughts?
>
>Thanks,