Re: Local logon for terminal server without specifying machine name?

Only Administrators should have permission to write to this
registry key.
So if your users are changing the DefaultDomain setting, they are
all administrators. In that case, the domain name is the least of
your worries.

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Vera Noest
MCSE, CCEA, Microsoft MVP - Terminal Server
TS troubleshooting: http://ts.veranoest.net
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"Wingnet" <whobedat@xxxxxxx> wrote on 30 maj 2007 in
microsoft.public.windows.terminal_services:

I hope you are still here Dragos!

I made the changes as said below to the registry. At first they
work. However, when someone uses the pull down list to go to
another domain, the registry values are reset to whatever domain
was used in the pull down list on the windows login screen. It
appears from my research these values are changed whenever a
different domain is selected from this pull down list. I can
specify the domain in the userid as 'domain\userid' during the
login process and this doesn't appear to change the registry
values, just using the pull down list to select the domain does.

Any idea on how to stop the registry values from being changed?

I feel like I'm so close! Thanks!

Chris Smith

"Dragos CAMARA" <dragos_c@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
message
news:F3231633-79CA-4563-9618-7B9DB43F1266@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
hi,
it's all about default domain login, if you want to change the
default domain login :

HKLM
SOFTWARE
Microsoft
Windows NT
Current Version
Winlogon

Change the following keys to the name of the domain that you
want as the default on the login screen:

- AltDefaultDomain
- DefaultDomain


--
Dragos CAMARA
MCSA Windows 2003 server


"Wingnet" wrote:

Hello all,

I'll keep this short without explaining why I need this but
simply say I need to do the following.

I want to set up a local account on a terminal server machine
and allow this
account to access the computer through terminal services.

I don't want to use the domain pull down list to select the
machine. I prefer to logon to the local account by typing
'Machine_Name\UserId' then enter the password. The trick is,
I also need to leave off the machine name
in the userid field.

I have two Server 2003 based TS systems. One of these
machines is based on
an NT4 domain while the other machine is based on a Server
2003 active directory.

I started on the TS machine in the NT4 domain first. I
created some local
accounts. After messing around, I discovered I could logon
through terminal
services by specifying for the username '\userid' and then the
password. In
other words, leave off the machine name from the userid (I
didn't have to select the machine name from the domain pull
down list either). Great start. I created some local logons
and all worked fine on the domain based
machine.

I then went to the active directory based TS server and
created some local
accounts. Thinking the same thing I did on the domain based
TS machine would work, I tried to login. The login failed
with a message saying the userid or password was wrong. In
other words, specifying '\userid' for the
userid didn't work. I tried to login with
'machinename\userid' as the userid. This time it worked and I
was able to log into Terminal Services onto the AD based
Terminal Services machine using the local account. This
verified the userid/password was correct and the local account
can log into
terminal services.

Questions: why can I log onto the domain based TS server
without specifying
the machine name but I can't on the AD based TS machine? How
do I log onto
all TS server machines without specifying the machine name on
local accounts?

Thanks!
.

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