Thursday, March 4, 2010

How to enable Remote Desktop remotely

To enabling Remote Desktop using regedit, follow these steps:


 
  1. Run REGEDIT from Start>Run
  2. Click on File, then select Connect Network Registry
  3. Type the remote computer IP or host name in the Enter the object name to select and the click OK
  4. If you don't have permission to access the remote computer, the logon screen will show up. Type the username and password for the remote computer. Then click OK.
  5.  Now, the remote computer is listed in the Registry Editor.
  6. Browse to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Terminal Server, in the right panel, seelct fDenyTSConnection (REG_DWORD). Change the value data from 1 (Remote Desktop disabled) to 0 (Remote Desktop enabled).
  7. Close the registry

3 comments:

  1. Good one.. Thanks for posting useful information..

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  2. 4.If you don't have permission to access the remote computer, the logon screen will show up. Type the username and password for the remote computer. Then click OK.

    What is username and password for the remote computer?

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  3. Hi Anonymous,

    Username & Password would be Administrator account and password of that computer. If you're not having administrator access/credentials of remote computer, you'll not be able to manage the host remotely.

    Regards,
    Uma

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