Re: Terminal Services Kiosk

Pretty much everything you want to do can be configured through Group Policy. What are you planning on replacing the shell with? Why are you trying to replace the shell? You will want to start investigating GPO's.

also how are you expecting users to terminate the shell? Why not simply lock down the workstations as is?

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F. David del Campo Hill wrote:
Hi all,

I have a Windows Server 2003 R2 configured as a standalone Terminal Services server, and a few Windows XP Professional desktops part of an Active Directory domain.

I want to create an Active Directory account that users can log in to in the desktops, but that will automatically open a Remote Desktop session to the Terminal Services server (they will then log in to the server using a non-Active Directory account). The account must NOT allow users to do anything on the desktops save automatically opening the RD session, and when the users disconnect or log out of the RD session, the desktops must log out automatically from the Active Directory account as well.

1. I have found that you can change the Windows shell by editing the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon\Shell registry value, but how do you change the shell for one user only?

2. Also, how do you make sure the user can only run mstsc.exe and cannot use Ctrl+Alt+Del (or other special key combinations) to bypass the shell?

3. And lastly, how to make the local desktop log out automatically when the shell is terminated?

Thank you for your help.
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