Remote How to Enable Win 2003 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 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, open the “system”"control">;"remote" tab, then remote Select the checkbox on the desktop allow users to connect to this computer remotely>

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 called 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 (Figure 2).
Figure 2

At this point, the "Select Computer" dialog box opens. You can either navigate to the Active Directory to locate the remote server or type its name in the text box (Figure 3).
Figure 3

Click “OK>, a node representing the remote machine appears in the Registry Editor (Figure 4).
Figure 4 Now browse HKLM on the server, find out the following registry key (Figure 5):

HKLM\\SYSTEM\\CurrentControlSet\\Control\\Terminal Server
Figure 5

Under the Terminal Server button You will find a 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) (Figure 6).
Figure 6

The remote machine needs to be rebooted 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. In order to verify from your workstation, open “Start”->“All Programs ->“Accessories ->“Communication”->“Remote Desktop Connection”, Connected in Remote Desktop In the login box, enter the remote server name, and then enter your administrator password when prompted, you can log in to the remote server.