Difference between revisions of "Enabling Remote Desktop Connections"

Revision as of 21:26, 30 September 2006

In XP, you have Remote Desktop Connection / Terminal Sessions, disabled by default.

You can enable them with a simple registry edit.

First, the XML for WPKG will look like this:

<package
    id="enable-ts"
    name="enables Terminal Server"
    revision="1"
    priority="0"
    execute="once">

 <install cmd='regedit /s "%SOFTWARE%\ts\enable-ts.reg"' />
 <upgrade cmd='regedit /s "%SOFTWARE%\ts\enable-ts.reg"' />
 <remove cmd='regedit /s "%SOFTWARE%\ts\disable-ts.reg"' />

</package>

And here are the registry files for enabling and disabling Remote Desktop Connections:

enable-ts.reg:

REGEDIT4

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Terminal Server]
"fDenyTSConnections"=dword:00000000

disable-ts.reg:

REGEDIT4

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Terminal Server]
"fDenyTSConnections"=dword:00000001

This will allow you to log on as Administrator (either domain or local) using Terminal Sessions.

Question: how to enable Terminal Sessions for other, non-Administrator users?