RDP 6 and Terminal Server Farms

[Jeff]

I have a terminal server farm with name farm.ad.domain.com that has 5
terminal server nodes running 2003 enterprise. RDP 5.1 and 5.2 connect to
(virtual) farm.ad.domain.com which hits my session directory server and
connects to the appropriate node.

RDP 6 can connect to each node in the farm (tries to log on locally and not
to domain account, separate issue) but I can't make it connect to the virtual
farm name or farm's virtual ip address.

When we upgrade to Vista next year this will be a major issue. How can i
get RDP 6 to connect to the terminal farm name?

 

[Jeff]

Since nobody knew what was happening I finally found a resolution, or what
seems to be a resolution for others if you run into this.

I was using multicast with single nics on my nodes. RDP 6 couldn't connect
to a virtual housed on a single nic with multiple IP addresses. I connected
a second nic in my nodes and set the slower of the 2 nics as part of the NLB
and the faster nic as the dedicated nic for TS. This time RDP 6 worked. So
from what I have seen, please correct me if this is incorrect, using
multicast with multiple IP's that create a virtual farm name can't be
connected to since there isn't an actual authentication point on the virtual
IP. When there was an actual nic dedicated to the NLB ip address it was able
to connect and redirect as normal. So I guess i will have to reconfig my NLB
to not use multiple IP address on a single nic.

"Jeff" wrote:

> I have a terminal server farm with name farm.ad.domain.com that has 5
> terminal server nodes running 2003 enterprise. RDP 5.1 and 5.2 connect to
> (virtual) farm.ad.domain.com which hits my session directory server and
> connects to the appropriate node.
>
> RDP 6 can connect to each node in the farm (tries to log on locally and not
> to domain account, separate issue) but I can't make it connect to the virtual
> farm name or farm's virtual ip address.
>
> When we upgrade to Vista next year this will be a major issue. How can i
> get RDP 6 to connect to the terminal farm name?