Remotely Enabling RDP

[doctor-who (RAM.)]

Have you ever tried to remotely access someone else’s computer in your office, just to be shot down by a “can not connect” line? This is a quick tutorial on how to evade that little bugger, and enable remote access, remotely.

Step 1: The problem

Noticing you have the problem, would obviously have to be the first step. If you don’t have this problem, no need to fix it.

Step 2: Open up Regedit

First real step is open up registry editor (start, run, regedit), and locate “Connect Network Registry…”

Step 3: This is what will happen

Once that is opened, locate your offending PC, this is what it should look like when all is said and done.

Step 4: 1 more search

Find HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \ SYSTEM \ CurrentControlSet \ Control \ Terminal Server
And locate the Key fDenyTSConnections

Step 5: Change the value

Change the value from 1 to 0, now you can connect

I’ve encountered this issue many times, and when an issue happens in a remote office, this saves you a boat load of driving time. Hope it helps at least one spicehead out there.

[Denis-Kelley]

Thanks for posting that. Need it from time to time. I thought it required one reboot after changing the value. Is that true?

[doctor-who (RAM.)]

I would say it wouldn’t hurt to reboot, but I haven’t run into any issues just doing it right away.

[sarahnicholson5486 (Sarahliznic)]

I ran in to this exact problem the other day for one of our remote sites, perfect thanks!

[gglines (TSTSGreg)]

I have searched and searched for a way to do this remotely and so far nothing has worked. This worked flawlessly. Thanks!

[nazihhaddad7912 (Nazih Haddad)]

awesomeee, i have been searching for this long time ago.
Thank you for sharing

[chriswhite (Chris9496)]

nice, I hate getting home and wanting to log into someones pc to look at something but RDP was not on. Thanks for sharing!

[jameskline5423 (bobjam)]

I’ve never had to reboot to do this, but occasionally have to wait up to 30 seconds for it to take effect.
Also, if you’re on Windows 7 you may need to start the remote registry service first before you can edit the registry remotely.

[michael1259 (Network Overlord)]

You can also set a group policy.You can also set a group policy.

[scub (hsc5775)]

I know something similar
http://community.spiceworks.com/how_to/show/395-remotely-enable-remote-desktop-on-another-computer
thx for share

[anthony (Twon of An)]

Like bobjam said, you’ll have to have Remote Registry service enabled:

Set-Service remoteregistry -ComputerName $Computer -status Running

[anthony (Twon of An)]

Like bobjam said, you’ll have to have Remote Registry service enabled:

Set-Service remoteregistry -ComputerName $Computer -status Running

[chrisatkinson2 (Chris65555)]

This is awesome! Thanks so much for the write up on this!

[z-rogue]

this is awesome, but i’m hitting an error, related to needing both computers to have remote registry enabled?

[matt248 (Matt9169)]

.bat file with the below line, and run using psexec, no reboot needed.
@reg add “HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Terminal Server” /v fDenyTSConnections /t REG_DWORD /d 0 /f

[martinwheeler6251 (MJReno)]

Also wondered about this but never been bothered to look it up,

Thx for sharing ^^

[sam (skrysiak)]

I’ve run into the problem of being unable to connect to remote machines a few times now, and as many of these computers are too distant to be worth travelling to it’s great to see a simple way of rectifying it from across the network. Ace write-up!

[crmcathy]

This sounds awesome - thank you! Does it also work when the PC is locked?? ie - can you “wake up” the PC?

[elizahwasku6604 (Elizah2979)]

Cool very helpful, i think this time i am able to solve my problem.

[anishmandal8705 (Anish1307i)]

Simple script i add a batch file from AD
“reg add “HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Terminal Server” /v fDenyTSConnections /t REG_DWORD /d 0 /f”"

save the file anyname.bat and done.