FastCon Service

You can download it here. Remember that it is free code and is no longer supported by me.

Description:

FastCon is WinNT remote console service. It allows you to connect to the NT Server or NT Workstation remotely from a WinNT or Win95 system.
Very nice thing is that you can disconnect from running session (either by line error or Ctrl-BREAK signal) and the remote session is still running. You then can latter reconnect to the session and continue with work.

Needs:

Local user group "FastCon Users" must be created on the server. Service and client needs a WinNT 4.0 or Win95 system to run properly. All users allowed to connect remotely have to be either in Administrators or "FastCon Users" local (domain) group.

Instalation:

Copy fastcon.exe, wenum.exe, whoami.exe and fcsvc.exe into %systemroot%\system32 directory on the remote server and type fcsvc.exe -install. Then open Services applet and make the Fast Console Service startup automatically. The fclient.exe should be copied into %systemroot% or \windows directory on each client machine.

Usage:

All management can be done using fclient executable. Type fclient without parameters to obtain syntax help.
Utility whoami (also included) displays security context in which console is running.
Only note: When you are in remote console mode (see examples bellow), you can terminate session by typing 'exit', break session (but leave running on the server) typing Ctrl-BREAK.
Ctrl-C signal is correctly sent and handled by remote application. Once you created session, only you or Administrator can connect to your session.

Examples:

fclient NT ver ; try to connect server 'NT' and obtain service version fclient NT new my ; creates session named 'my' fclient NT list ; lists all active sessions fclient NT con my ; connects to remote session 'my'

Error codes:
All error codes are the standard Win32 error codes (GetLastError() call).
For example,
2 - bad filename (session you need does not exist)
5 - access denied (you have not appr. privileges or session you trying to connect is not yours)
109 - broken pipe (session was terminated - you can reconnect lately)

Bugs:
- kill command can be used on any session (not to only your ones)
Release 0.9:
- better internal connection closing method - reduced bandwidth usage (faster response over WAN, slower on LAN) - remote console name as local console title - server stability was improved, it has also side efect: after terminating of a session you can reconnect the same session again at least after 5 sec
Release 1.0 of FCSVC:
Added testing of "FastCon Users" user group (needed to create console).
Added WENUM.EXE - enumerating of all windows on active (hidden) desktop