Remote desktop connection protocol error 0x112f [closed]

This error may be triggered by insufficient memory on RDP server.

After few tries with this error, RDP managed to get a connection to the server and I was able to stop a bogus service consuming too much memory. This can be done also with sysinternals or sc.


Might not be a solution for all but I found that if I reduced the screen resolution of the RDP session, I was able to get in. The server was at 95% capacity I went from 3 high res monitors to 1 800x600 window.


Server restart helped, I'm able to connect to server again.


If the server accessible with RPC (basically, if you can access a shared folder on it), you could free some memory and thus let the RDP service work properly. The following windows native commands can be used:

To get the list of memory consuming tasks:

tasklist /S <remote_server> /V /FI "MEMUSAGE gt 10000"

To kill a task by its name:

taskkill /S <remote_server> /IM <process_image_name> /F

To show the list of desktop sessions:

qwinsta.exe /SERVER:<remote_server>

To close an old abandoned desktop session:

logoff <session_id> /SERVER:<remote_server> 

After some memory is freed, the RDP should start working.