Question

RWW Connect to Desktop Computer List

Asked by: spwiggins

Hi All
I have RWW working fine, however I wish to limit the list of desktops displayed that can be connected to based on the user that is logged in.
I know how to remove certain computers from the list for ALL users, but this is not what I want.
I want the logged in user to only see their computer in the list.

I am also aware of the solution that can be implemented that edits the 'remote desktop' group on each machine, again this is not really what I want.

I have started this question on low points. If a solution is possible I will increase the points to 150.

Thanks

Steve W

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2008-08-07 at 03:59:11ID23628836
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Microsoft

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SBS Server 2003

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R2

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SBS Small Business Server

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Answers

 

by: ormerodrutterPosted on 2008-08-07 at 04:09:05ID: 22179714

Have you tried putting different computers in different OUs and assign different permissions to your users?

 

by: spwigginsPosted on 2008-08-07 at 04:49:24ID: 22179970

Thanks for your comment.
No I have not tried that. How exactly would that work?

Regards

Steve

 

by: ormerodrutterPosted on 2008-08-07 at 05:47:26ID: 22180363

I must stress that I ain't 100% sure it will work for RWW - I know it will work internally.

All you need to do is to create different Organisational Units (in AD users & computers) under the Computer container. For example Sales OU and you can move all sales computers into that OU. Assign permission only to Sales personnel (better to use user-group in this case) so that only Sales people can logon those computers. On the other OUs deny Sales so they cannot logon those computers that are NOT belonging to Sales OU.

As I said that should work internally but I haven't test this in RWW. I think, in theory that Sales people can still see all the computers BUT they can't log onto those computers which are not in the Sales OU.

 

by: spwigginsPosted on 2008-08-07 at 05:54:08ID: 22180408

Hi There

This dose not sound a viable proposition for me. We are a relatively small company and do not have large sales groups etc. I need to limit each RWW user to only one computer.

Thanks for your comment anyway.

Regards

Steve

 

by: ormerodrutterPosted on 2008-08-07 at 08:10:10ID: 22181714

Thats even easier if you only have a small number of user.

Open AD users & computers and click on the Computers container. Right click on each computer and grant the user permission. Take other "user-group" away from the ACL, remember to leave the admin and system accounts.

Of course you need to know which computer has been used by which user.

 

by: RobWillPosted on 2008-08-20 at 19:43:34ID: 22275764

If you have set up SBS and clients using the wizards and defaults, users are not added to the remote desktop users group, but rather each user that is defined for a given PC is automatically made an administrator of their own machine (only). Administrators by default have remote desktop access. Thus, even though all PC's show up in the RWW list, by default a user can only log on to their own PC.

 

by: spwigginsPosted on 2008-08-28 at 06:21:44ID: 31484258

Thank you both for your help.

I was not aware that only admins and the owner of the pc can log on. So although I would prefer to only display the users own machine I can live with the fact that other users cannot log on.

 

by: RobWillPosted on 2008-08-28 at 06:31:53ID: 22334528

When you run the connectcomputer wizard, you select which user or users will be assigned to the PC. Only those users and domain admins will be able to access the machine through RWW.
Thanks spwiggins.
Cheers !
--Rob

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