Re: no remote desktop for admin

I'm a little confused by the mention of nVidia drivers; what does that have to do with anything in the first place?

Regardless, I have to ask one other thing. You mentioned enabling remote desktop in the remote tab, but did you make sure to open the firewall port? I would think you'd get an error if the port was closed, but it's worth checking. You should also set the Terminal Services service is to start automatically, not manually.

You should be able to test if the firewall port is open by telnet-ing to port 3389 from another machine.

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Josh Rosenberg [MSFT]
SDE - Terminal Services


"Philip Hall" <phall-nws1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:MmYLh.14644$tD2.13418@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Hi. I can not connect to our windows server 2003 enterprise edition, service pack 1.via remote desktop from either a work station or even the server.
The person that originally installed the os, for some unknown reason, installed terminal services in per user mode, even though we have no need for it, and do not have
any licenses.
After the 120 day trial period, I could no longer connect to the server. After reading numerous messages and web pages, I learned that I needed to uninstall ts via add/remove.

I did this, and I made sure that remote desktop is checked in the remote tab under system.
I checked netstat and here is the relevant line:
TCP 0.0.0.0:3389 0.0.0.0:0 LISTENING

I didn't see any errors or warnings in the event logs after I attempted to connect.
terminal services is started when I looked at services, it said started manual.
server type says remote desktop for administration when I looked using terminal services configuration under server.

The symptom is,
when I try to connect, after a few seconds, I am returned to the connect button.
no messages, nothing.
I have tried to connect using the administrator account. I have also tried users that I know are not in the remote desktop users group, still no messages or errors.


I have run out of ideas.
I do not think it is the problem with nvidia drivers, the server doesn't have an nvidia display adapter.

What should I look at next?
Any help will be greatly appreciated.

Phil


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