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Adam - 29 Oct 2003 15:11 GMT

How do I connect to a desktop and not log off the end
user that is already logged on. Can I remotely connect to
a pc and take control with a user already logged on.
Thanks. I do not want to boot the other user, however see
what the other user is doing. Netmeeting won't work as I
don't always have an end user there. They are logged in
just not at the pc.

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Jeffrey Randow (MVP) - 30 Oct 2003 03:32 GMT

Use Remote Assistance...

Remote Desktop on Windows XP is limited to 1 interactive session...
Concurrency does not yet exist for Windows XP (allowing multiple
sessions)..

Jeffrey Randow (Windows MVP - Networking & Smart Display)
winxp@longhornconsulting.com

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>How do I connect to a desktop and not log off the end
>user that is already logged on. Can I remotely connect to
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>don't always have an end user there. They are logged in
>just not at the pc.

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anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com - 30 Oct 2003 17:07 GMT

Jeff or anyone that knows the answer:

I can add a user to the Local Remote Desktop users
account with Active Directory, but still cannot connect
to the machine with Remote Desktop.
I have domain amin rights. If someone at the xp machine
goes into properties and manually turns on RDP it works.
How can you do this remotely? I have 350 users that I
support.

Nona Farthing
IT Dept

From a Brian Desmond posting:
If you add the user to the Local Group "Remote Desktop
Users" (that
is, the group which is on a specific server), the user
will have
Remote Desktop Access to only that server. On the other
hand, if you
add the user to the Domain Group "Remote Desktop Users",
the user will
have Remote Desktop Access to all servers which support
it.

HTH

Jeffrey Randow (Windows MVP - Networking & Smart Display)
winxp@longhornconsulting.com

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On Wed, 22 Oct 2003 04:31:17 GMT, "joe f. haydn"
<JosephHaydn@earthlink.net> wrote:

>Hi all. We have tens of XP's and the users need to

remotely access those

>machines via remote desktop. Those XP's do belong to

Active Directory.

>I know that, by default, XP's only allow administrators

group to do remote

>desktop, and that this access list can be added for

other users/groups at

>Systems Control Panel's "Remote" tab.
>
>However, because we have a large number of machines, I

don't want to go over

>each computer and configure one by one.
>
>Is there any way I can control those XP's remote desktop

access list at the

>OU level, may be by the Group Policy? Or any other way?
>
>Appreciate for any input, and any web site links to

related information.

>thanks
>joe

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