Windows 2003 Terminal Server Introduction

Windows Server 2003 Terminal Server can be used to manage the resources for each client telnet, providing a Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP)-based service that makes Windows Server 2003 a truly multiple-session environment operating system. and allows users to use a variety of legitimate resources on the server.

First, Terminal Server installation

1. Use the Configure Your Server Wizard to install quickly

The Configure Your Server Wizard includes critical services (such as DNS servers, file servers, mail servers, terminal servers, etc.) that you need to configure on your server, and we can use this wizard to quickly install a Windows Server 2003 Terminal Server.

The first step: click "start → settings → control Panel", go to "Administrative Tools", run the "Configure Your Server Wizard." In the Welcome to the Configure Your Server Wizard window, click Next, and the Setup Wizard lists "preliminary steps" to ensure that these steps are complete and click Next.

Step Two: The wizard checks the server's network settings, completes the check, pops up the Server Role Selection window (Figure 1), selects "Terminal Server", clicks "Next" and clicks "Next" in the next "Select Summary" window to confirm the options you have chosen.

Figure 1

Step three: After completing the installation configuration for the Terminal Server, reboot the system, which completes the rapid installation of the Terminal Server.

2. Install Terminal Server using Add or Remove Programs

Step One: Click "start → settings → control Panel", run "Add or Remove Programs", go to the Add/Remove Windows Components Options page, and check "Terminal Server" in the Windows Components Wizard (Figure 2). The system will pop up a prompt box and click "Yes". Then display the Terminal Services Introduction window and click Next.

Figure 2

The second step: there are two types of Terminal Server installation modes, they are full security mode and relaxed security mode. In general, select Full security mode (Figure 3).

Figure 3

Step three: After the copy and configuration of the file is complete, reboot the system to complete the Terminal Server installation.

Tip: Using Add or Remove Programs to install Terminal Server is cumbersome and requires LAN administrators to manually configure certain Terminal server parameters, and recommends that normal users use the Configure Your Server Wizard.

Second, the client configuration

1. Installation of client software

After Windows Server 2003 Terminal Server installation completes, LAN users must install client software to use Terminal Server resources.

Assuming that the Windows Server 2003 system is installed on the server's D disk, the path to the client software on the server is "D:\Windows\system32\ Clients\tsclient\win32", which is shared on the LAN. The user must run the installer to complete the installation of the client.

2. Telnet to a Terminal server

After you have finished installing the client software, run the Remote Desktop Connection program (Figure 4), fill in the IP address of the terminal server in the "Computer" column, such as "192.168.0.1", and fill in the username and password in the username and password fields (Note: This is filled out in Windows Server 2003 servers on the LAN administrator to set up your account, not the local client's username and password, and then click the "Connect" button, you can log on to the Terminal server.

Figure 43, reasonable configuration of Terminal Server

Although the Windows Server 2003 Terminal Server has been successfully installed, its default settings do not necessarily meet the needs of local area users, so you must also configure the Windows Server 2003 Terminal Server appropriately according to the needs of your users.

1. Settings for user rights

With the default settings for Windows Server 2003 Terminal Server, only a few users can log on to the terminal server, such as Administrators group users, System group users, and so on, and general LAN users cannot use Terminal Server, so add the appropriate permissions to those users on the Terminal server.

First, we create a new user group "TS" that adds all the LAN users who want to access the Terminal Server to the TS group. On the server side, click on "start → program → admin tools → Terminal Services Configuration", in the left column of the Terminal Services Configuration window, click "Terminal Services Configuration → connection", go to the "Rdp-tcp Properties" box, go to the "Permissions" box (Figure 5), click the "Add" button and go to the "Select User group or user" form. Click "Advanced" below and click "Find Now" to find "TS" user group and click "OK".

Figure 5

Finally, you can give the TS user group access to the terminal server by checking the allowed access rights for user access and guest access in the TS Permissions list box below the Permissions box.