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I have installed 7 TS user licenses and have the Domain Controller set up as

the licensed terminal server. Members of the admin group can TS to the

machine, but the users added to the built-in RDU group cannot. I am getting

the message:To log on this remote computer, you must be granted the Allow Log

on

through Terminal Services rigtht. By default , members of the Remote Desktop

.... " - the same one Rene in her thread was getting.

 

Because the terminal server is a Domain Controller, I cannot give 'local'

access to the machine, nor is it available in Computer Management in order to

do the access manually. I manually added the RDU Group into the Domain

Policy for local logon, but still no luck.

 

Any ideas?

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RE: Remote Desktop Users Group Not Allowing TS Connection

 

From Vera, the repository of TS info :)

 

The installation doesn't differ from installing TS on a member server, but

the default permissions do not allow normal user to connect to a TS running

on a DC.

And there are some very good reasons for that. Keep in mind that a terminal

Server is just a multi-user workstation. Do you really want your users to

logon to your DC and use it as their workstation? I must strongly suggest

that you don't do this.

Apart from the security risks, you could face performance problems as well.

A DC in an Active Directory domain has quite some roles already, which are

performed in the background. A TS is tuned differently to provide the

quickest response times for interactive users. This can easily lead to

performance problems for both the DC-role and the TS-role.

 

That said, if you want to continue with this setup, you will have to modify

the Default Domain Controller Security Policy to grant your users the right

to Logon through Terminal Services.

 

"Colleen" wrote:

> I have installed 7 TS user licenses and have the Domain Controller set up as

> the licensed terminal server. Members of the admin group can TS to the

> machine, but the users added to the built-in RDU group cannot. I am getting

> the message:To log on this remote computer, you must be granted the Allow Log

> on

> through Terminal Services rigtht. By default , members of the Remote Desktop

> ... " - the same one Rene in her thread was getting.

>

> Because the terminal server is a Domain Controller, I cannot give 'local'

> access to the machine, nor is it available in Computer Management in order to

> do the access manually. I manually added the RDU Group into the Domain

> Policy for local logon, but still no luck.

>

> Any ideas?


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