Re: I am a total Terminal Services n00b!

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Thanks TP! I don't know what it was that you said, but it made me think of
such an easy way to do it. I can't believe I didn't think of it! I just
logged onto a PC on the network and ran a remote mmc to the sytstem and
changed the group policy. Thank you for you help and everyone else who put
thought into it.

"TP" wrote:

Phil,

Did you edit the local group policy, or a Domain group
policy?

Is this TS server a member server, a domain controller, or a
standalone server?

If it is a standalone server, then you must have edited the
local policy. Here are the steps to undo it:

1.) Map a drive to the server's C: drive from a workstation.
From your workstation you would type something like
(substitute servername & password):

net use s: \\servername\c$ /user:administrator password

2.) Make sure explorer is set to show hidden files/folders, then
navigate to the following folder on the server (S:):

S:\WINDOWS\system32\GroupPolicy\User

3.) Rename the registry.pol file to registry.pol.bak

4.) Navigate to the following folder on the server (S:):

S:\WINDOWS\system32\GroupPolicy\Machine

5.) Rename the registry.pol file to registry.pol.bak

6.) Navigate to the following folder on the server (S:):

S:\WINDOWS\system32\GroupPolicy

7.) Rename the gpt.ini file to gpt.ini.bak

8.) Restart your server.

Please respond if your server is a member server or
domain controller and I will post the instructions for
those as well. Also, I can assist you if you are unable
to map a drive to your server because of windows
firewall or file and printer sharing disabled, etc.

-TP

Phil Buzzette wrote:
The have been denied access from the whole C: and can not even run
command prompt. I created a shortcut to gpedit.msc and that wouldn't
run either. I didn't know about GPO until after I locked the system
down and did some more research. That obviously will be my next step,
but I am hoping there is something I can do to fix this without data
loss.



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