Re: remote connect to XP Workstation

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Thank you for your help Steve,

Can you be more precise on the last method suggested?
>using Group Policy (with the "Restricted Groups" capability).

since it would be nice to avoid connecting to all 35 workstations?

Thanks again,
Filippo

"Steve Foster [SBS MVP]" <steve.foster@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> ha scritto nel
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> Filippo Taiana wrote:
>
>>Hello everybody,
>>
>>I have a question about RDP to XP Workstations.
>>
>>I have a network with an SBS2003 server and 2 Win2000 member servers.
>>
>>35 Workstations w/ XP SP2
>>
>>Users are not member of local administrators gruop but are members of
>>domain Remote Web Workplace.
>>
>>They cannont logon via RDP on their workstations (Remote desktop users
>>group on local machine is empty).
>>
>>Is there a way to fix this w/o having to go through all the computers?
>>
>>Thank you for your help,
>>
>>Filippo
>
> Members of the local Administrators group are allowed to remote in,
> regardless of membership of the Remote Desktop Users group.
>
> The correct way to grant non-administrators the right to remote in is to
> add them or a group to which they belong to the Remote Desktop Users
> group.
>
> Note that this can itself be done remotely (by an administrator), using
> the Computer Management console in Administrative Tools, or using Group
> Policy (with the "Restricted Groups" capability).
>
> --
> Steve Foster [SBS MVP]
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