Non-admin users to connect to Remote Desktop

[Guest Ludovic Felten]

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

[Guest Ludovic Felten]

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"

[Guest Soo Kuan Teo [MSFT]]

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/2006/10/03/Terminal-Services-_2800_TS_2900_-Remote-Configuration-Primer-Part-1.aspx

 

Thanks

Soo Kuan

 

 

 

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"Ludovic Felten" <Ludovic Felten@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message

news:A6C1576F-D55E-43B2-8CF6-152C92B997B2@microsoft.com...

> 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