Copying files from the local system and pasting them on the server is an easy process for small files. However, I have not been able to do this for a few days now.
How can I enable this feature again? My local system is running Windows XP Service Pack 3 and my server is running Windows Server 2008.
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update - Based upon comments, it appears Option 3 is has the most success.
Option 1
Click on the RDP connection and select options.
Under Local devices and resources make sure clipboard is checked.
Sometimes, it is useful to also click on the More button to bring across your drives (although this was not part of your original question). This way you can drag and drop files in Explorer (of the remote session) onto your local computer.
Option 2
Disable the internet security or firewall (sometimes not easy for bigger operations).
Option 3
I have learned how to solve it from this article:
http://brennan.offwhite.net/blog/2007/01/18/fixing-copypaste-for-remote-desktop-sessions/
To make it short: You have to stop the application called rdpclip.exe in your remote machine. Then you go to Run, and write rdpclip.exe to restart this app. The link between the clipboards is recovered.
Reason: The clipboard implements what is called " clipboard viewer chain " and is application-controlled, that is to say, that every application that is added to this chain is responsible of passing on notification messages to the next viewer in the chain, there are apps that don't pass the messages and this causes the problem (in Vista is solved).
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Option 4
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