Hello,

I've recently download TSGrinder and I've been having issues running the application. When I run the application from the command prompt I get the following error:

tsgrinder timed_Event_send_recv: Wait failed: TIMEOUT

I've googled this error and it says to download and run the application from ROBOCLIENT. I downloaded this client but nothing is happening? What are the next steps to using roboclient and tsgrinder together?

BTW - I'm running XP SP3.

Maybe soon this will finally show up on pen-test... :-)

A while back I encountered an issue when using TSGrinder:

C:\usr\sbin\tsgrinder
>tsgrinder -u administrator -b -n 2 192.168.1.5
timed_Event_send_recv: Wait failed: TIMEOUT
Couldn't get handle to client window

I was busy and didn't have time to mess with it and it still worked on
one of my other computers.

Over the holidays things were slow, so I decided it was time to look
into why I got the error.  Turns out my first machine was fully patched
and the older moth-balled box wasn't.  The problem is due to the upgrade
of mstsc during a windows update.

The workaround in a nutshell:

Download & Unzip TSGrinder
Obtain and place a copy of mstsc.exe and mstscax.dll version
5.1.2600.2800 (you may be able to find it in an $NTUninstall under
%windir%) in the same directory as TSGrinder.

Place the following text in a new file called tsgrinder.exe.manifest

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?>
<assembly xmlns="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:asm.v1" manifestVersion="1.0">
<assemblyIdentity
 version="6.0.0.0"
 processorArchitecture="x86"
 name="redirector"
 type="win32"
/>
<description>DLL Redirection</description>
<dependency>
 <dependentAssembly>
   <assemblyIdentity
     type="win32"
     name="Microsoft.Windows.Common-Controls"
     version="6.0.0.0"
     processorArchitecture="X86"
     publicKeyToken="6595b64144ccf1df"
     language="*"
   />
 </dependentAssembly>
</dependency>
<file
     name="mstscax.dll"
/>
</assembly>

And place it in the same directory.

This worked for me - anyone else?

-AJC

Does anyone know where to download a copy of these 2 files?  I also had RDesktop begin to fail with a cannot get handle on window error. Has anyone seen a fix for it?

I didn't have much luck with tsgrinder either.

I use a patched version of rdesktop I have on my backtrack vm.