Q: I was thinking about using some form of VNC to our Win2k machines and I needed to control, but ran into a post in another forum where I said that a man 2k machine could act as a Terminal Services server using the (Windows 2000) server CAL. I assume he means that as long as you were either in the remoting server or workstation, but not both, you could do using Terminal Services.
I won our 2000 servers set up remote desktop so I use my XP workstation to manage them, but . this man right in thinking you can set it to do the same for 2000 workstations? I do not think you could, but thought I would get clarification before I fell TightVNC about these things.
Best Answer: Unfortunately when I web search "windows 2000 remote desktop enable", the destination of the links at Microsoft refer to newer Windows versions. Even non-server versions of Windows XP Pro and Vista Business include remote desktop, so I wonder if it is on the original CD's for Windows 2000 server, or installed by default and you do not know how to enable it.
For example http://support.microsoft.com/kb/814590 says "By default, Remote Desktop for Administration is installed when Windows Server 2003 is installed. However, Remote Desktop for Administration is disabled for security reasons."
Re:Just an update for those interested:
I stumbled across this page (http://www.darkage.co.uk/) the other day and gave it a shot – it worked beautifully. I can push out one of about a dozen VNC distrobutions in about 10-30 seconds (depending on what branch I'm connecting to) and get right in. There's a bunch of options I haven't even played with on it yet, but it saved me a ton of driving the last couple days.
I'm sure I could have probably found an .msi package somewhere for a VNC server, but this was faster and easier for now (I haven't learned to roll my own .msi's yet, and would rather do that than trust one put out by an unknown source) – hopefully someone else finds this helpful/useful.
Re:OT- but if you need a cheap terminal server You can hack an XP pro box with an SP2 beta .dll. I have run 3 concurent connections with out logging out the loged in user.
Re:I agree with these guys. My company uses terminal services and Citrix quite a bit. The only way for you to connect to your 2k Pro machine is via VNC, PC Anywhere or some such program as that. You'll be unable to use RDP to connect to the 2k Pro machine.
Re:Not possible. Look for a VNC solution.
Re:no, there is no terminal server (Meaning, the server, that you connect to) for 2k Pro.
Re:Well, there's a downloadable RD 'client' for 9x and 2k that will allow you to connect to an XP machine running an RD server. I haven't yet installed that, but am going to try throwing it on a 2k workstation to see if it will connect to the 2k server(s). If so, then it's just a matter of whether there's a way to get the termial services server running on a 2k (non-server) box.
I don't think it's possible, but I've been wrong before – figured I'd go ahead and try to find out.
edit: Yep, that works fine. So it's just a matter of whether a 2k workstation can actually run as a Terminal Services 'server'. I know it can't (or isn't supposed to) by default, but it'd be nice if there was a way to get it to. Remote Desktop can be so handy, and I knowing how cheap the owner is (as most owners are), we won't be replacing the 2k machines any time soon.
Re:XP Professional has Remote Desktop capabilities, but 2000 Professional does not. I think you'll need TightVNC.
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