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Remote desktop: cannot logon interactively (please help...) Mark 03-28-2006
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Posted by Mark on March 28, 2006, 1:01 pm
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 Hi

Using Windows XP

Sorry if I'm in the wrong place (wouldn't be surprised, its been one of
those days). Anyway, to cut a long story short, I have a small test network
for dev work. The two dev machines just belong to Workgroup (I don't
generally fire up the server as it's real noisy and this is a small office),
i.e. no domain controller.

Whilst trying to figure out another problem (to do with SQL Server
security), I fired up my server (SBS 2003) and joined my two dev machines
to my domain. After failing to solve the sql server problem (like I said...
not a good day), I shut down the server and returned the two dev machines to
their original state (i.e. no Domain, just Workgroup) and rebooted etc.

The problem I have now is that neither dev machine can connet to the other
using remote desktop. This is a serious pain as one of the machines is a
laptop.

I search the net and MS and found lots of solutions to slightly different
setup, none of which worked.

On both machines in the security settings the "Terminal Server" group is
included in the "Logon locally" policy and the "Allow users to logon
remotely" option is ticked.

I have no idea whats gone wrong :@(

Any help much appreciated

Mark



Posted by Mark on March 28, 2006, 1:04 pm
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 After much tweaking I got it back :@) I have no idea what went wrong or how
I fixed it though...



Posted by Steven L Umbach on March 28, 2006, 6:54 pm
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Congrats on fixing it but too bad you are not sure what the fix was. From
the description of your problem it sounds as if the users you wanted to
access it via RDP were not in the Remote Desktop Users group or not local
administrators on the computer they were trying to access [if that is a
wanted thing] as by default administrators have the user right to logon
through terminal services. In the future it may also help to look at the
security log for logon failures and the reason why. --- Steve


> After much tweaking I got it back :@) I have no idea what went wrong or
> how I fixed it though...
>



Posted by Mark on March 30, 2006, 3:50 pm
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Thanks for that... I have to admit, my approach was very sloppy. Appollogies
:@)

> Congrats on fixing it but too bad you are not sure what the fix was. From
> the description of your problem it sounds as if the users you wanted to
> access it via RDP were not in the Remote Desktop Users group or not local
> administrators on the computer they were trying to access [if that is a
> wanted thing] as by default administrators have the user right to logon
> through terminal services. In the future it may also help to look at the
> security log for logon failures and the reason why. --- Steve
>
>
>> After much tweaking I got it back :@) I have no idea what went wrong or
>> how I fixed it though...
>>
>
>



Posted by Steven L Umbach on March 30, 2006, 11:17 pm
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No need for apologies. After all you got it to work! --- Steve


> Thanks for that... I have to admit, my approach was very sloppy.
> Appollogies :@)
>
>> Congrats on fixing it but too bad you are not sure what the fix was. From
>> the description of your problem it sounds as if the users you wanted to
>> access it via RDP were not in the Remote Desktop Users group or not local
>> administrators on the computer they were trying to access [if that is a
>> wanted thing] as by default administrators have the user right to logon
>> through terminal services. In the future it may also help to look at the
>> security log for logon failures and the reason why. --- Steve
>>
>>
>>> After much tweaking I got it back :@) I have no idea what went wrong or
>>> how I fixed it though...
>>>
>>
>>
>
>



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