Non-admin users to connect to Remote Desktop

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Hi,

I've created new user accounts (non administrative) and I want some of them
to be able to access the Remote Desktop on my server. They need to connect to
the console and I never need to have more than 1 user logged in at a time, so
I don't see the need to use terminal services with licenses and stuff.

The issue is that even if I make sure the new users are allowed local logon
and logon through terminal services, I still get the error "" while opening a
remote desktop console session.

If I assign the user administrative rights, they can login with no
problem... but that's not what I want.

So my question is: does it really REQUIRE the users to have administrative
rights? is there no way to assign the particular needed rights to a non-admin
user for this to work?

Thanks
 
RE: Non-admin users to connect to Remote Desktop

Sorry, error message is "To log on to this remote console session, you must
have administrative permissions on this computer"
 
Re: Non-admin users to connect to Remote Desktop

I'm assuming you're running Windows Server 2003 Terminal Services in Remote
Desktop for Administration mode. The default setting is only administrators
can access remote console session.
You need to use TSWMI and or TS WMIC to change the default remote console
session permissions settings.
i.e. To allow non-admin user account "domain\UserName" to access remote
console session, logon as administrator to your server, open a cmd shell,
run the following:

wmic RDPermissions Where "TerminalName='Console'" Call AddAccount
"domain\UserName", 2

To restore to default setting, , open a cmd shell, run the following:
RDPermissions where "terminalname='console'" call RestoreDefaults

for more info on TSWMI, please visit:
http://blogs.msdn.com/ts/archive/20...2900_-Remote-Configuration-Primer-Part-1.aspx

Thanks
Soo Kuan



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"Ludovic Felten" <Ludovic Felten@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Hi,
>
> I've created new user accounts (non administrative) and I want some of
> them
> to be able to access the Remote Desktop on my server. They need to connect
> to
> the console and I never need to have more than 1 user logged in at a time,
> so
> I don't see the need to use terminal services with licenses and stuff.
>
> The issue is that even if I make sure the new users are allowed local
> logon
> and logon through terminal services, I still get the error "" while
> opening a
> remote desktop console session.
>
> If I assign the user administrative rights, they can login with no
> problem... but that's not what I want.
>
> So my question is: does it really REQUIRE the users to have administrative
> rights? is there no way to assign the particular needed rights to a
> non-admin
> user for this to work?
>
> Thanks
 
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