Remote Desktop on 2000pro

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I've installed RD client on one of the 2kpro PCs on the network and
when I try to use it co connect to other computers it works just fine.
The problem is when I go the other way round so connecting say from
the 2003SBS to that 2kpro machine. I'm getting a message saying that I
cannot connect to that computer as remote connection might be not be
enabled on it. How do I go about enabling it then? There is no Remote
tab as in XP. I found some articles about installing TS on it from Add/
Remove Windows components but I jus can't find it there. Does anyone
know how to get it work?
Thanks
yaro
 
Re: Remote Desktop on 2000pro


<yaro137@googlemail.com> wrote in message
news:f9240437-1fa1-4979-b064-42fa8146f44f@t12g2000prg.googlegroups.com...
> I've installed RD client on one of the 2kpro PCs on the network and
> when I try to use it co connect to other computers it works just fine.
> The problem is when I go the other way round so connecting say from
> the 2003SBS to that 2kpro machine. I'm getting a message saying that I
> cannot connect to that computer as remote connection might be not be
> enabled on it. How do I go about enabling it then? There is no Remote
> tab as in XP. I found some articles about installing TS on it from Add/
> Remove Windows components but I jus can't find it there. Does anyone
> know how to get it work?
> Thanks
> yaro

Windows 2000 machines cannot act as hosts for Remote Desktop
connections. You need a server or else a WinXP Professional machine.
 
Re: Remote Desktop on 2000pro

Hi Yaro,

Did you make sure that you have enable Terminal Services? Please read up on
How to Install terminal Services in Remote Administration Mode from:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/306624/


--
Jabez Gan
Microsoft MVP: Windows Server
http://www.msblog.org


<yaro137@googlemail.com> wrote in message
news:f9240437-1fa1-4979-b064-42fa8146f44f@t12g2000prg.googlegroups.com...
> I've installed RD client on one of the 2kpro PCs on the network and
> when I try to use it co connect to other computers it works just fine.
> The problem is when I go the other way round so connecting say from
> the 2003SBS to that 2kpro machine. I'm getting a message saying that I
> cannot connect to that computer as remote connection might be not be
> enabled on it. How do I go about enabling it then? There is no Remote
> tab as in XP. I found some articles about installing TS on it from Add/
> Remove Windows components but I jus can't find it there. Does anyone
> know how to get it work?
> Thanks
> yaro
 
Re: Remote Desktop on 2000pro

<yaro137@googlemail.com> wrote in message
news:f9240437-1fa1-4979-b064-42fa8146f44f@t12g2000prg.googlegroups.com...
> I've installed RD client on one of the 2kpro PCs on the network and
> when I try to use it co connect to other computers it works just fine.
> The problem is when I go the other way round so connecting say from
> the 2003SBS to that 2kpro machine. I'm getting a message saying that I
> cannot connect to that computer as remote connection might be not be
> enabled on it. How do I go about enabling it then? There is no Remote
> tab as in XP. I found some articles about installing TS on it from Add/
> Remove Windows components but I jus can't find it there. Does anyone
> know how to get it work?
> Thanks
> yaro

Hello Yaro.

Windows 2000 Professional does not support Remote Desktop (inbound). You can
install the remote desktop client on it so you can remote into other windows
comptuers that support it (Windows XP Pro and Server 2000/2003) but that's
it. Windows 2000 Server supports inbound RDP (remote desktop protocol via
Terminal Services) but they didn't include this functionality in 2000
Professional.

If you really need to be able to remote into a 2000 Pro box, you can use
other software like the freely available TightVNC
(http://www.tightvnc.com/).

HTH,
Jim
 
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