Smartly enable Windows 2003 Remote Desktop

Remote Desktop is a cool feature in Windows Server 2003 that allows you to remotely log in to a machine and work on it as if you were sitting in front of that machine ( In Windows 2000 Advanced Server Edition, this feature is called Terminal Services in Remote Management mode. Remote Desktop acts like a lifeguard for repairing server failures remotely. However, what if you forgot to enable this feature before shipping the server to the field? If the server is in front of you, it is of course easy to enable remote desktop: just log in as an administrator and open “Control Panel” In the "system", select the "remote" tab, then select the checkbox in the remote desktop"allow users to remotely connect to this computer"

Unfortunately, you can't use Remote Utilities on remote machines to enable Remote Desktop (although you use “Computer Management), by right-clicking the root node when connecting to the remote computer, select &ldquo "Properties", you can access some of the properties tabs of the remote computer's "System", but the "Remote" tab is not accessible. As shown in Figure 1. The remote computer is named SRV220.

The remote computer is named SRV220 (Figure 1)

The solution is as follows:

Sit down and log in to your Windows XP workstation as an administrator and start the Registry Editor (Start-> Run -> regedit-> OK. Then select the "Connect to the network registry" item in the "Files" menu.

This opens the "Select Computer" dialog box. You can either locate the remote server by browsing the Active Directory or type its name in the text box.

Click “OK", a node representing the remote machine appears In the album editor.

Now browse HKLM on the server and find the following registry key:

HKLMSYSTEMCurrentControlSetControlTerminal Server

Under the Terminal Server key, you will find one The REG_DWORD type key named fDenyTSConnection. Double-click this key to open the “Edit DWORD Value” dialog box and change 1 (Disable Remote Desktop) to 0 (Enable Remote Desktop).

The remote machine needs Reboot for the changes to take effect. So open a command prompt window and type the following command: shutdown -m srv220 -r

After the remote machine reboots, its remote desktop should be enabled. The workstation is verified, open “start”->“all programs”->“accessories”->“communication>->“remote desktop connection”, on remote desktop Connect to the login box, enter the remote server name, and then enter your administrator password when prompted, you can log in to the remote server.