Re: Grey screen after login to 2003 TS

Anything in the EventLog, especially the security log?
I believe that this can happen when users have too few permissions on
the root of the filesystem.
What kind of profiles do the users have? Have you checked
thepermissions on their roaming profiles and on \Documents and
Settings folder on each TS?

If this doesn't help, I would download FileMon and RegMon from
http://www.sysinternals.com/. Run them as administrator (when no user
is connected), and start a TS session as a normal user.

FileMon and RegMon will show you all "access denied" errors that
occur, so that you can give your users the necessary permissions on a
file-to file or Registry subkey basis.

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Vera Noest
MCSE,CCEA, Microsoft MVP - Terminal Server
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<adaml@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote on
29 apr 2005:

> I have several installations of 2003 Server running TS. On a
> couple of them, i receive a grey screen after logging in. Making
> the user a member of the administrator group allows them to log
> in normally.
>
> All TS users have already been added to the Remote Desktop Users
> group, so I know thats not the problem. The problem is occuring
> on several machines, DC's and standalone servers.
>
> Any ideas how i can get these users out of the administrator
> group and logged in???
.

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