Remotely enabling remote desktop
You can enable remote desktop on a Windows 2003 server machine remotely by completing the following steps:
Connect to the remote servers registry by Opening up the registry editor on your machine (Click Start -> Run -> type regedit and click ok) and clicking File -> Connect to Network Registry
Type in the remote servers name and click Ok.
Now navigate to the following key HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Terminal Server and change the fDenyTSConnections (REG_DWORD) from 1 (Remote Desktop disabled) to 0 (Remote Desktop enabled) as shown below.
On the servers I’ve done this to so far there was no reboot necessary. Though in your situation you may need to run shutdown -m \\remoteservername -r if you still cannot connect to your server after this has been done.
Tags: registry, remote desktop, Windows 2003
Windows 2003 | Wayne | 
February 26, 2009 10:54 am