You are trying to connect via remote desktop (terminal server) to the server, but you find out there’s too much people already connected. You get the damn message:

What can I do? Is easy. As we already have our brand new tool winexe, we can make a little script to make our lives easier:

#!/bin/bash

[ $# -lt 1 ] && echo "Error: Missing argument" && echo "Use: $0 server [disc #session]" && exit

[ ! -z "$2" ] && [ $2 != disc ] && echo "Error: Can't understand second argument" && echo "Use: $0 server [disc #session]" && exit
[ "$2" == "disc" ] && echo "Disconnecting session $3 from server $1..." && winexe //$1 "logoff $3" -A secretfile && exit
echo "Listing server $1 sessions:"
winexe //$1 "query session" -A secretfile


File “secretfile” is optional, just in case you don’t want to type user and pass. Contents are:

domain=YOURDOMAIN
username=user
password=pass


That’s an poorly error-controlled script, but it allows you to watch who is connected:

[email protected]:~/$ ts.sh server2
Listing server server2 sessions:
SESSIONNAME USERNAME ID STATE TYPE DEVICE
> user1 0 Disc rdpwd
rdp-tcp 65536 Listen rdpwd
Administrator 3 Disc rdpwd
user2 1 Disc rdpwd
console 5 Conn wdcon
[email protected]:~/$


In this server you can’t login, there are too much users. We can see everybody is “disconnected”, so there is no one working. We choose the user we like the least, and we kick him out:

[email protected]:~/$ ts.sh server2 disc 1
Disconnecting session 1 from server server2...
[email protected]:~/$ ts.sh server2
Listing server server2 sessions:
SESSIONNAME USERNAME ID STATE TYPE DEVICE
> user1 0 Disc rdpwd
rdp-tcp 65536 Listen rdpwd
Administrator 3 Disc rdpwd
console 5 Conn wdcon


Et voilà, we just get a free session to connect to admin this server.

Obviously, is way better if everybody logs off when they end working. But if you have to share your servers with absentminded admins, you must take care of yourself…