Domain user remotely access his desktop via RDP

[zillah]

Hmm... try putting domain\jallen in the field [where, of course, 'domain' is your domain name]. I am at work now, and just tested it on a machine. Worked fine for me. I was able to add a domain user.

Do you thing because you are doing that locally and I am doing it through VPN ?

I have to try locally to log in to WS-A as a domain admin not local admin and see if I can add John Allen.

Meanwhile could you please try to log in as a local admin and then try to use VPN and see if you are facing same my problem

[westin]

Do you thing because you are doing that locally and I am doing it through VPN ?

I have to try locally to log in to WS-A as a domain admin not local admin and see if I can add John Allen.

Meanwhile could you please try to log in as a local admin and then try to use VPN and see if you are facing same my problem

I am not sure I follow. If I connect through VPN, and then log into a workstation through RDP as either the local admin, or the domain admin, I still have the option to add users as remote users.

It doesn't make much of a difference whether I am physically in front of the computer, or in through VPN and RDP.

The only difference I can see, is that if you try to add a domain account as a remote user on a workstation, while you are logged in as local admin, it will ask you for a login/password for a user with authority on the domain.

[zillah]

It doesn't make much of a difference whether I am physically in front of the computer, or in through VPN and RDP.

This is what I believe as well.

[CybertecOne]

The only difference I can see, is that if you try to add a domain account as a remote user on a workstation, while you are logged in as local admin, it will ask you for a login/password for a user with authority on the domain.

I'm not being a snoot, but for the sake of learning I am sure that in this case it would not make any difference if you are connected via RDP or at the console.

If you are logged on the the workstation locally, then any access/changes to a domain resource will require domain creds regardless of RDP or console.

Peace

[zillah]

Hi Guys

What I did to eliminate source of the problem (I am not going to use a VPN connection)

Within our LAN I logged in to WS-A (the actual name for PC is P3 for the sake of the forum I named it WS-A) as a member (support) of domain controller group.

For the proof that WS-A joined the domain Please see " System Properties " in the snapshot below

http://img109.imageshack.us/i/systempropertiesa.jpg/




For the proof that " Remote Desktop " is ticked

http://img6.imageshack.us/i/remotedesktop.jpg/





The funny thing that I can not understated when I log in locally (means not via VPN) as domain controller sometimes I can not see ' Entire Directory ' option for : " Select the location you want to search " and sometimes I can see it

http://img6.imageshack.us/i/entiredirectory.jpg/



Now if I am lucky and I am able to see ' Entire Directory ' option for : " Select the location you want to search " and I do perform a search either it will Freeze as below :

http://img187.imageshack.us/i/searchstuckdonothing.jpg/



or it will give the error message as below :

http://img15.imageshack.us/img15/993/erroryr.jpg



Thanks