How to Enable Remote
Desktop Protocol (RDP) on a Remote Computer
Faced with the prospect
of needing to remotely ‘touch’ a computer on your network – but RDP is
turned-off by policy? Here’s a way to get around that limitation!
- Login to the
workstation with administrator credentials.
- Run the Registry
Editor
- Click on the File menu
- From the pull down menu, select the Connect
Network Registry
- Once the “Select
Computer” dialog box opens, type the remote computer host name in
the text box, or browse Active Directory to locate the remote server, or click
on “Advanced” button to search for the remote computer.
- Click OK after the
remote computer is selected. A node for the remote computer network registry
will be displayed in the Registry Editor with HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE (HKLM) and
HKEY_USERS (HKU) hives.
- Navigate to the
following registry key for the remote computer:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Terminal
Server
- In the right pane,
locate a REG_DWORD value named fDenyTSConnection. Double-click onfDenyTSConnection and
change the value data from 1 (Remote Desktop disabled) to 0 (Remote
Desktop enabled).
- Reboot the remote
machine by issuing the following command in Command Prompt:
shutdown -m \\hostname
-r
- Replace hostname with the actual computer name
of the remote host.
- Remote Desktop for the remote computer is enabled
and listening on the default (3389) port for incoming Remote Desktop Connections.
