Archived from groups: microsoft.public.win2000.group_policy (
More info?)
Apply the setting:
Computer Configuration
Administrative Templates
Windows Components
Terminal Services
Allow Users to connect remotely using Terminal Services:
Enabled
This will turn on the check mark in System Properties, Remote, Remote
Desktop, Enable Remote Desktop users ... and make it grey so no one can turn
it off.
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"Quiggley" <Quiggley@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Yeah. That would be simple. How can I keep from having to go in and turn
> on
> RDP on a 2003 box though. Seems nothing works until I do that.
>
> "Bruce Sanderson" wrote:
>
>> To logon to Terminal Services, a user also needs the logon locally right.
>>
>> I suggest that rather than using a GPO to control who can connect via
>> RDP,
>> add a domain group to the local Remote Desktop Users group on the
>> Terminal
>> Server, then populating the domain group with the user accounts that you
>> want to be able to use the Terminal Server. The local Remote Desktop
>> Users
>> group, by default, gets the rights needed to logon via Terminal Services.
>>
>> RDP is a Terminal Services client delivered with Windows XP and 2003.
>>
>> --
>> Bruce Sanderson MVP Printing
>>
http://members.shaw.ca/bsanders
>>
>> It is perfectly useless to know the right answer to the wrong question.
>>
>>
>>
>> "Quiggley" <Quiggley@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> news:E8FD70C3-4192-47F2-A81A-36D5AD9CE6F1@microsoft.com...
>> > If I create a GPO and apply it to a server container that enables
>> > certain
>> > users for logging on to terminal services shouldn't that enable them to
>> > RDP
>> > into the servers or is that a different setting somewhere?
>>
>>
>>
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