Often Windows 2000 boxes exist in your organisation that do not have licensed Terminal Services running. This means you can only have two active sessions. Sometime more than one person may leave sessions live by not logging out. To kill these session there are two utilities that can be used via DOS prompt from a remote PC to remove the offending sessions.

1. qwinsta: queries the sessions

qwinsta /?

Display information about Terminal Sessions.

QUERY SESSION [sessionname | username | sessionid]
             [/SERVER:servername] [/MODE] [/FLOW] [/CONNECT] [/COUNTER]

 sessionname         Identifies the session named sessionname.
 username            Identifies the session with user username.
 sessionid           Identifies the session with ID sessionid.
 /SERVER:servername  The server to be queried (default is current).
 /MODE               Display current line settings.
 /FLOW               Display current flow control settings.
 /CONNECT            Display current connect settings.
 /COUNTER            Display current Terminal Services counters information.

2. rwinsta: removes the sessions

rwinsta /?

C:\Documents and Settings\stever>rwinsta /?
Reset the session subsytem hardware and software to known initial values.

RESET SESSION {sessionname | sessionid} [/SERVER:servername] [/V]

 sessionname         Identifies the session with name sessionname.
 sessionid           Identifies the session with ID sessionid.
 /SERVER:servername  The server containing the session (default is current).
 /V                  Display additional information.