TSGrinder Problems *HELP*

[scucci]

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.

[acj]

There was an update to mstsc mid-last year that broke the call backs.  I’ve been trying to send this to pen-test, but it hasn’t been posted yet.  I did send it to Thor, and he said he was going to take a look at it.  I will post in a sec…

[acj]

Maybe soon this will finally show up on pen-test… 🙂

A while back I encountered an issue when using TSGrinder:

C:usrsbintsgrinder
>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

<assemblyIdentity
version=”6.0.0.0″
processorArchitecture=”x86″
name=”redirector”
type=”win32″
/>
DLL Redirection

  <assemblyIdentity
    type=”win32″
    name=”Microsoft.Windows.Common-Controls”
    version=”6.0.0.0″
    processorArchitecture=”X86″
    publicKeyToken=”6595b64144ccf1df”
    language=”*”
  />

<file
    name=”mstscax.dll”
/>

And place it in the same directory.

This worked for me – anyone else?

-AJC

[Anonymous]

thanks for the post, somewhere i posted that i was just using an older version of the remote desktop software, or maybe it was the “new” version at the time, tsgrinder is a pretty old tool.

[entercomp]

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?

[mtgarden]

Got it working.  Stuffed a working copy for everyone here:
http://conservativebooktalk.com/files/tsgrinder.zip

works on XP sp3; if its a single logon box and someone is logged in, it won’t work.  also, seems to fail after the first five password attempts when running from Win 7.

Enjoy.

[putosusio]

I didn’t have much luck with tsgrinder either.

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

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