Networking All-in-One For Dummies
Book image
Explore Book Buy On Amazon
Before you can use Remote Desktop Connection (RDC) to access a server, you must enable remote access on the server. To do that, follow these steps (on the server computer, not your desktop computer):
  1. Open the Control Panel and click System. This step brings up the System settings page.
  2. Click the Remote Settings link. The remote access options appear, as shown.
  3. Select the Allow Remote Connections to This Computer radio button.
  4. Click OK.
networkingaio-remote Configuring remote access.

You’re done! Repeat this procedure for each server computer you want to allow access to.

You can click the Select Users button to create a list of users who are authorized to access the computer remotely. Note that all members of the Administrators group are automatically granted access, so you don’t have to add administrators to this list.

There’s no question that RDC is convenient and useful. It’s also inherently dangerous, however. Don’t enable it unless you’ve taken precautions to secure your Administrator accounts by using strong passwords. Also, you should already have a firewall installed to keep unwanted visitors out of your network.

About This Article

This article is from the book:

About the book author:

Doug Lowe is the bestselling author of more than 40 For Dummies books. He's covered everything from Microsoft Office to creating web pages to technologies such as Java and ASP.NET, and has written several editions of both PowerPoint For Dummies and Networking For Dummies.

This article can be found in the category: