(Msg. 1) Posted: Fri Aug 29, 2008 12:59 pm Post subject: Terminal Services Client Setup
I'm running TS on Windows Sever 2003 with RDC on Win XP clients. Right now, I have a generic login to the client PC that automatically logs in when the computers boots, and then the user launches the RDC to login to TS.
We also have some users that use applications that won't run in TS, or that can't because of licensing.
1. What is the preferred configuration for the client PC? Should there be a generic, automatic login to the XP client, or should users login to the PC using their domain credentials, and then launch RDC to login to TS?
2. Related to the first question, how do we handle users who have to use applications that won't/can't run on TS, but still need to be able to save data to their home/department folder?
(Msg. 2) Posted: Sun Aug 31, 2008 8:54 am Post subject:
1. A generic, automatic logon to the Xp clients is certainly not recommended, and it prevents you from solving your second problem.
Give every user a unique user account in the domain and let them logon to the XP clients with that user account.
2. Once logged on to the XP client, users can start an rdp session to the TS, logging in with the same user account, or run applications locally on the XP client.
To make sure that they have access to the home folder from both the XP client and from within the TS session, redirect their home folders (My Documents") to the same share on a file server. This is easiest done with a Group Policy.
User Configuration - Windows Settings - Folder Redirection
My Documents
(Msg. 3) Posted: Tue Sep 02, 2008 11:23 am Post subject: [Login to view extended thread Info.]
Vera, thanks for the reply. In your experience, do you get any complaints from users about having to login to the XP session and then login to the TS session just to use the apps?
(Msg. 5) Posted: Mon Nov 17, 2008 9:32 am Post subject: [Login to view extended thread Info.]
vera_noest wrote:
No, that's a matter of user education. Explain to them that this is the only way to keep their documents private, that should interest them
And since the user account is the same, it not much of an extra effort. It's not like they have to remember an extra password.
Hi! I need to configure the 24 client PCs (Windows XP old machine with hard disk and 256 MB RAM) to login directly on Terminal Server, is that possible? I have an AD and I've just set another Windows Server 2003 computer and made it a Terminal Server. But as far as I understand I really need two login (one on domain and the other on RDP) screens but I do want to speed up the process. What do you suggest? Its a school lab and there is no need of distinct usernames (I'm thinking on creating a username to every machine, i.e: machine name L101, username and password L101, machine name L102, username L102 and so on). Thanks in advance.
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