Thanks Jon. No, I wish it were that easy - once this starts happening, it occurs no matter who logs in - including me logging in from an otherwise reliable connection. Dave -----Original Message----- From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jon Reynolds Sent: Tuesday, 15 March 2005 9:19 AM To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [THIN] Re: Terminal Services causing machines to reboot..... David Finch wrote: >I need some help and I'm wondering if anyone has seen this one. > > > >We have had one of our servers start acting up last week. > > > >EVERY time someone tries to connect to it via TS or Citrix it does a dirty >shutdown and reboots - basically as soon as they try to connect (i.e. they >don't even get the login screen). > > > >Stopping the Terminal Services service prevents the reboots, but makes it >useless as a Terminal Server (obviously!) > > > >We restored the Registry and System files from backup and it was fine for >another 4 days when it started doing it again - same problem - same >solution. > > > >I can't see any obvious registry changes (we did a "before and after" >comparison) and the event logs show nothing other than the server recovering >from an unexpected shutdown. > > > > > >The box has previously been running for 18 months without a problem, and >there are no changes that I am aware of that we have made to it. > > > >Server is a HP DL380 running Win2K/SP3 + Metaframe XP FR3 > > > > > >I'm going to upgrade from W2K SP3 to SP4, but does anybody have any other >suggestions as to what might be causing it. > > > > > >David > > Hi David, A couple of years ago we had the same problem, I tracked it down to one bad Mac client. Whenever this person would log on to our Citrix box it would crash the server, I have no idea why. We just replaced the box with a windows machine as we were moving away from the Mac as client computers. Hope that helps, Jon ******************************************************** This Weeks Sponsor: RTO Software TScale TScale provides a cost-effective way to improve performance, capacity and stability for thin-client servers like Citrix MetaFrame or Microsoft Terminal Services running Windows NT, 2000 or 2003. http://www.rtosoft.com/enter.asp?id=296 ********************************************************** Useful Thin Client Computing Links are available at: http://thin.net/links.cfm ThinWiki community - Excellent SBC Search Capabilities! http://www.thinwiki.com *********************************************************** For Archives, to Unsubscribe, Subscribe or set Digest or Vacation mode use the below link: http://thin.net/citrixlist.cfm ******************************************************** This Weeks Sponsor: RTO Software TScale TScale provides a cost-effective way to improve performance, capacity and stability for thin-client servers like Citrix MetaFrame or Microsoft Terminal Services running Windows NT, 2000 or 2003. http://www.rtosoft.com/enter.asp?id=296 ********************************************************** Useful Thin Client Computing Links are available at: http://thin.net/links.cfm ThinWiki community - Excellent SBC Search Capabilities! http://www.thinwiki.com *********************************************************** For Archives, to Unsubscribe, Subscribe or set Digest or Vacation mode use the below link: http://thin.net/citrixlist.cfm