Hi all.I'm having trouble on my environment. My phisical machine is running Windows 7 Pro Edition and TestComplete 9.20 Enterprise (this is the master machine).The slave machine is a virtual, running Windows 8 x64 (and another x86) with TestExecute 9.20.I'm trying to make the Distributed Test work but it isn't going well.As you (person [or people] who is [are] helping me) can see, I've took many prints on a cenario that the Distributed Test worked (my machine as the master and a random Win7 machine as the slave with TestExecute) - named W7-SUCCESS-XXX.I also print when the problem happenned on Windows 8 - named W8-FAIL-XXX. TestComplete just stays like that.What can I do?Hope you guys can help me.Thanks.

Hello.I've corrected it by changing one windows default configurations.Open the "My Computer" properties, Advanced, on the Remote tab. Uncheck the option "Allow connections only from computers running Remote Desktop with Network Level Authentication"Don't remember what else I've done to make it work, long time since it hapenned.But the problem was only about Windows configuration, nothing with TestComplete or TestExecute.Hope it helps.

Hi Mathijs, You can try opening user sessions on the slave machine manually: set the Login mode in the Hosts editor to Manual for the host. Please note that before you run your automated test, you need to log in to the remote computer and open the needed user session manually. If no user session is opened on the remote computer when the distributed testing starts, an error occurs. For more information, please refer to the "Opening User Sessions Manually" section of the "Opening User Sessions on Remote Computers" article.

Hi Joffre, As far as I know, you are working with our TestComplete Support team. Did you get an answer to your question?

Hi Tanya Gorbunova. They are helping me through email indeed. All my doubts are being resolved. Thanks for the attention!

Hi Joffre, Can you share with us what the cause of the issue was? It will be useful if someone else faces it.

Problem with Distributed Testing on Windows 8

11 Replies

joffre
Regular Contributor
11 years ago
Hello.

I've corrected it by changing one windows default configurations.

Open the "My Computer" properties, Advanced, on the Remote tab. Uncheck the option "Allow connections only from computers running Remote Desktop with Network Level Authentication"

Don't remember what else I've done to make it work, long time since it hapenned.

But the problem was only about Windows configuration, nothing with TestComplete or TestExecute.

Hope it helps.
TanyaYatskovska
SmartBear Alumni (Retired)
11 years ago

Hi Mathijs,

You can try opening user sessions on the slave machine manually: set the Login mode in the Hosts editor to Manual for the host. Please note that before you run your automated test, you need to log in to the remote computer and open the needed user session manually. If no user session is opened on the remote computer when the distributed testing starts, an error occurs. For more information, please refer to the "Opening User Sessions Manually" section of the "Opening User Sessions on Remote Computers" article.
TanyaYatskovska
SmartBear Alumni (Retired)
12 years ago

Hi Joffre,

As far as I know, you are working with our TestComplete Support team. Did you get an answer to your question?
joffre
Regular Contributor
12 years ago

Hi Tanya Gorbunova.

They are helping me through email indeed. All my doubts are being resolved.

Thanks for the attention!
TanyaYatskovska
SmartBear Alumni (Retired)
12 years ago

Hi Joffre,

Can you share with us what the cause of the issue was? It will be useful if someone else faces it.
dpeterson157
Contributor
11 years ago
Yes, please post solution because I'm having lots of trouble with distributed testing, also.
mgroen
Frequent Contributor
11 years ago
Hi,I am having the same difficulties when trying to access the remote machine, which is running Windows 8. When I verify the host, I get the error "Unable to create a user session on the remote machine". (see attached screenshot) I have unchecked to only allow safe connections in the Windows 8 machine (as stated above)...Is there anything else I need to check?
mgroen
Frequent Contributor
11 years ago
Hi Tanya,

thanks for your tip. Indeed setting the login mode to manually and create an active user session on the win8 machine myself, resulted in successfull test execution.

However, of course, it would still be nice to see if Windows8 machine would start up automatically as well (just like Windows7 VM)....

Is this an issue TC has with Windows 8 ?
akuczkowski
Contributor
11 years ago
Another data point, we are using Automatic RDP Session successfully with TC 9.30 and Windows 8.1 so I don't think you should have to be using the manual option.

-Adam
jessical
New Contributor
11 years ago
Adam, did you have any issues?

Are you using Hyper-V? I would really like to get this issue worked out.