Have you ever needed to enable remote desktop on a computer in your network remotely? It's a pretty easy process. Here's how to do it on a network with Windows Server 2003. You should have network administrator credentials to change the settings on a remote computer.

My boss recently went on business trip, and told me to get VPN and Remote Desktop ready on his laptop to his office workstation. He had it working before, but his desktop was recently formatted. So, I set up a shortcut for VPN, and shortcut for Remote Desktop to his workstation on his laptop's desktop.

However, I forgot one thing. To enable Remote Desktop on his workstation! His office was locked also, so I couldn't access his computer locally. I knew his computer was on, because I had ping'd it in the command prompt.

Luckily, I am an administrator in our offices network. Here's how I remotely enabled Remote Desktop on his computer, so he can access all his programs and files.

You'll have to know a few things first though.

• Your networks administrator login and password
• The workstations computer name or IP

1. Log into your workstation or Windows Server as the administrator.
2. Open up the Registry Editor. By pressing start > run or on your keyboard press start + r and then typing regedit
   
   
   
   
   
3. Now, remotely access the computer's registry by clicking File > Connect Network Registry





4. A window will pop up asking for the computer's name or IP. You can enter either one. In my case, I just entered the IP, as I didn't know his computer's name, since I didn't format it. After you enter that, click Check Name. If you've entered a proper computer in your network, it will underline it. Click OK.





5. The computer will now show up in the registry. Expand that computer's tree. It should show HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE and HKEY_USERS





6. Go to the following HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Terminal Server





7. Double click fDenyTSConnection





8. Edit the Value data from 1 to 0 to enable it.
9. Press OK. And close the registry editor.
10. Go to your command prompt, by going to your run command (like before) and typing in cmd.
11. In the console type shutdown -m \\ComputerNameOrIP -r





12. Then after a few minutes try to remote desktop to the computer!

You should be able to access the computer via Remote Desktop now.

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