Thursday, December 26, 2013

Enable remote desktop connection from remote registry

Machine A : PC which you are using to active remote desktop connection in another PC

Machine B : PC for which remote desktop connection has to be activated.

Step 1: From Machine A : Goto Start -> Run -> regedit. Open the Registry window of Machine A.

(Note: User ID logged in Machine A should have ADMIN rights in Machine B)

Step 2: Click “Connect Network Registry“

Step 3:Enter the computer name of Machine B, for which we have to change the settings and Click “OK”

Step4:The destination machine (Machine B) will be connected with our current logged in machine (Machine A).
Step 5:Goto the below mentioned path and change the fDenyTSConnections to “0” and click “OK”.

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Terminal Server

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows NT\Terminal Services

Step 6:After doing the following changes, right-click the remote machine (Machine B) name and click Disconnect.
NOTE: If suppose the above mentioned registry value is not found, then create a DWORD parameter with a value ’0′.