Hacks have discovered how to enable RDP in Home Premium

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JonnyBlaze

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I tried it with no luck. I didn't backup my old termsrv.dll and now I can't use rdp at all.
 
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Lord Banshee

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VistaBusiness here, It works if you use a different user... ie Vista Box logon as BOB, laptop remote to VistaBox with user JANE.

JonnyBlaze you have to visit that website on the link given then find where they got the info to do this.
http://thegreenbutton.com/forums/6/168973/ShowThread.aspx

this is the file that worked for me:
http://demayo.hopto.org/downloads/termsrv_new.dll

rename to termsrv.dll


The link of the OP's site is dead for the dll (2KB or 404 file not found). This file is somewhere in the 4xxKB range.
 
Jaxidian

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Only thing I did was to do the Home Premium hack from this link:
http://mjwii.com/prog/termsrv.zip

I just took the zip, extracted to a folder, ran the .bat file, then I was done! Only thing left to do after that was to open up a port as an exception in Windows Firewall (or turn the firewall off).

Worked like a charm for me, didn't even require a reboot. :)

-Jax
 
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Just thought I'd share the news - I offer no advice on whether or not this is in violation of the EULA or whatever those sorts of things are.
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No advice is necessary, it's pretty obvious that you're violating the EULA by enabling features that you haven't paid for.
 
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Originally posted by: Nothinman
Just thought I'd share the news - I offer no advice on whether or not this is in violation of the EULA or whatever those sorts of things are.
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No advice is necessary, it's pretty obvious that you're violating the EULA by enabling features that you haven't paid for.
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Actually, as far as I'm aware, the closest thing to a EULA violation that I'm violating is the one where it says only 1 user may use the system at a time. Sure, the concurrent RDP sessions could be used by multiple users and that's generally the purpose for it. But I guarantee you that I'm the only one accessing RDP on mine.

Since it's so obvious and you're such an expert, can you correct me on what part of the EULA I'm violating?

-Jax
 
Nothinman

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Since it's so obvious and you're such an expert, can you correct me on what part of the EULA I'm violating?
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You only have rights laid out in the EULA and anything not mentioned is implicitly forbidden so even if it's not explicitly denied in the EULA you're violating your license by enabling functionality that you haven't paid for and I doubt you'll find a court in any civilized nation that would find in your favor. It might even be able to be argued that it's a DMCA violation since you're breaking a protection scheme although it's protecting functionality instead of content.
 
Jaxidian

Jaxidian

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Originally posted by: Nothinman
Since it's so obvious and you're such an expert, can you correct me on what part of the EULA I'm violating?
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You only have rights laid out in the EULA and anything not mentioned is implicitly forbidden so even if it's not explicitly denied in the EULA you're violating your license by enabling functionality that you haven't paid for and I doubt you'll find a court in any civilized nation that would find in your favor. It might even be able to be argued that it's a DMCA violation since you're breaking a protection scheme although it's protecting functionality instead of content.
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I think a lot of us are in trouble. I see nothing explicitly giving us the right to install WoW. Uh oh!
 
Nothinman

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I think a lot of us are in trouble. I see nothing explicitly giving us the right to install WoW. Uh oh!
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Funny, but since the whole point of Windows is to run other software installing and running WoW is allowed. And I finally did find the wording the EULA where it says you can't do this, under SCOPE OF LICENSE it explicitely says that you may not work around any technical limitations in the software; .
 
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MercenaryForHire

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Originally posted by: Nothinman from the Vista EULA
you may not work around any technical limitations in the software
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That just makes me go WTF in ways I can't even quantify at the moment.

So tweaking Vista will be a crime? :confused:

- M4H
 
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Originally posted by: MercenaryForHire
Originally posted by: Nothinman from the Vista EULA
you may not work around any technical limitations in the software
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That just makes me go WTF in ways I can't even quantify at the moment.

So tweaking Vista will be a crime? :confused:

- M4H
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It's worse than that. The universe implodes, and it's all your fault. Thanks a bunch fool!
 
Nothinman

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That just makes me go WTF in ways I can't even quantify at the moment.
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It is pretty vague, but intent matters so I doubt you'll get convicted for performance tweaks. Of course some performance tweaks like editing TCPIP.sys to work around the 10 half-open connection limit are grey because that only really affects P2P and other questionable applications.

But that's what you get for using software without reading the EULA first. =)
 
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Originally posted by: Nothinman
It is pretty vague, but intent matters so I doubt you'll get convicted for performance tweaks. Of course some performance tweaks like editing TCPIP.sys to work around the 10 half-open connection limit are grey because that only really affects P2P and other questionable applications.

But that's what you get for using software without reading the EULA first. =)
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I don't see that as much of a gray area, because you're just doing the same thing as this RDP hack. The 10 connections is a limitation for users who choose the lower versions of Vista (Home Basic or Home Premium) and you are circumventing one of the benefits of using the more powerful variants (just like you would for the RDP hack).

I purchased Vista Ultimate just to avoid the TCP issues :Q!
 
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Nothinman

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I don't see that as much of a gray area, because you're just doing the same thing as this RDP hack. The 10 connections is a limitation for users who choose the lower versions of Vista (Home Basic or Home Premium) and you are circumventing one of the benefits of using the more powerful variants (just like you would for the RDP hack).
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No, the 10 half-open outgoing connections not the 10 concurrent incoming connections for things like IIS and CIFS.

I purchased Vista Ultimate just to avoid the TCP issues
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There are no issues and AFAIK all versions of Vista and XP SP2 have the 10 half-open outgoing connection limit.
 
Jaxidian

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Sorry for my sarcastic remarks earlier - I could have been nicer. :)

I guess my point is that the EULA really only half-matters what it says. While I agree with you if you're reading the EULA as law to the letter and everything else is illegal, then what this hack does is probably illegal. But then again, if you do that, then practically anything you do within Windows is illegal. This hack is really not much different at all than installing LiteStep as an alternative shell. You're essentially circumventing a technical limitation that the default windows shell doesn't support multiple virtual desktops and many other things. You replace a few system files, change some config files, copy the LiteStep files to your system, then voila, you have additional functionality! Is this illegal? Depends on if you follow the EULA to the letter. If you do, then it is illegal, most likely. The kinds of changes that it takes to install litestep aren't much different at all than the changes it takes to do this hack.

Anyways, we can argue EULAs all day - I take them with a grain of salt. Grant it, that doesn't mean I'm an advocate of piracy or anything like that - I already have 4 Vista licenses (3 home premium and 1 ultimate), most of which are retail so I can legally transfer them around from machine to machine over time. I have who knows how many XP licenses. It's just the nitty gritty details of the EULA really don't matter to me or to Microsoft. I paid for the software, I'm not screwing Microsoft in any way (exploiting their software and selling it or anything like that), etc. Do you really think they're going to care about me remoting into my own pc after paying for the license? I doubt it.
 
Jaxidian

Jaxidian

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Originally posted by: Oakenfold
I'm no programmer but isn't using a precompilled DLL not a good idea?
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I'm assuming you're afraid of viruses and rootkits and whatnot. If you don't want to download a DLL to replace yours with, go through some of those links and it tells you how to hex-edit your own DLL file to make it work. It's just a couple minor changes to the DLL files.

-Jax
 
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