How to Enable Remote Desktop
Remote Desktop is a very cool tool that enables you to connect to your computer’s desktop from another computer across the network or even the Internet. The most common use for this is when people work from home and they want to run applications on their office computer–it’s typically much easier to use Remote Desktop to connect to your office computer than it is to try to connect to install every application, shared folder, and printer on your home computer. If you want to connect to a computer at your office, contact your IT department. IT will need to configure your computer and make changes to the firewall.
If you want to connect to another computer in your home across your network, follow these steps (you’ll need access to an administrator account):
1. On the computer you want to connect to, click Start, right-click Computer, and then click Properties.
2. Make note of the Computer name (listed halfway down the page). Then, under Tasks, click Remote settings.
3. If all your computers are running Vista, click Allow connections only from computers running Remote Desktop with Network Level Authentication. If you have some earlier versions of Windows that you want to use to connect to this computer, click Allow connections from computers running any version of Remote Desktop.
4. Click Select Users.
5. In the Select Users dialog, click the Add button. Type the name of the user you want to grant access to, and then click OK. Repeat this step to add more users.
6. Click OK twice.
Windows Vista will automatically open the necessary exception in Windows Firewall. Now, you are ready to use Remote Desktop to connect to the computer from another computer.
If you need to enable Remote Desktop on a computer that you can remotely manage but doesn’t yet have Remote Desktop turned on, follow these steps:
1. Use Regedit to open the registry of the remote computer.
2. Browse to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Terminal Server.
3. Set fDenyTSConnections to 0, and create it if necessary. It’s set to 1 by default, which disables it.
Posted: December 17th, 2006 under Mobility, Windows XP.
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Comment from Karen
Time: July 10, 2007, 2:07 am
I’m looking at this exact dialog and it does not have the second section ‘Remote Desktop’. Despite having the first part enabled, I am unable to connect to my Vista computer from my XP computer.
Comment from Jay
Time: October 10, 2007, 2:42 am
As Karen noted above, I also do not see the second section. I’ve visited several websites and they all show that second section, but this is now visible on my dialog box. Is there some other step that must be completed first prior to these options showing up?
Thank you
Comment from Dave
Time: October 25, 2007, 1:57 am
I have two computers, one a laptop and one a desktop. They are both on the same router/network. Both running Vista 32 Ultimate.
I can Remote Desktop from my laptop to my home computer (also running Vista, router enabled for RD and fully password protected). In fact, I can do that from anywhere I travel.
I cannot RD into my home computer from my desktop.
Wha? Same network, same OS, same target home computer, very different results. Interesting note? I can ping the DNS name for my public IP address within a CMD window on the laptop, but not on my desktop. I checked the firewall settings, and RD is enabled.
Help?
Signed,
Completely stumped.
Comment from Luis
Time: December 7, 2007, 2:42 pm
Thank you!
Comment from vladimir
Time: December 9, 2007, 10:01 pm
Here is a question: I enabled RDC in regedit in VistaU, but when i tried to connect from XP it wrote: “Couldn’t connect..”.
Does it enable “Allow connections only from computers running Remote Desktop with Network Level Authentication” or “Allow connections from computers running any version of Remote Desktop”?
How in Regedit enable “Allow connections from computers running any version of Remote Desktop”?
Comment from RudyD
Time: January 17, 2008, 5:00 pm
Dear Dave!
What OS is on your desktop?
Probably You can get a newer mstsc client from microsoft.
Are the connections enabled on the target box well?
Comment from kirk
Time: February 28, 2008, 1:02 am
why is there not a remote desktop select user on my computer
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