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Well, thanks for replying sirbounty. &nbsp;This is yer lucky day, for being diligent enough to try to help someone. &nbsp;I realized I need to go to My Computer, Select Properties, Click the Remote tab, and Enable Remote Connections. &nbsp;Duh. &nbsp;But hey, perhaps your suggestion joggled this ancient memory...so the points are yours.
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Well, thanks for replying sirbounty.  This is yer lucky day, for being diligent enough to try to help someone.  I realized I need to go to My Computer, Select Properties, Click the Remote tab, and Enable Remote Connections.  Duh.  But hey, perhaps your suggestion joggled this ancient memory...so the points are yours.

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Hey all.<br />
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I never had this problem before, but then again, I haven't installed w2k3 in a year or so. &nbsp;I cannot remote desktop into my w2k3 server. &nbsp;I've installed IIS and anything remotely connected with Remote Desktop Connection, but I still cannot RDC in. &nbsp;The server is a workgroup, and no AD installed. &nbsp;Any step-by-step help to enable this would be appreciated.<br />
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I *can* ping the server just fine. &nbsp;I *can* RDC to other servers on my network...<br />
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Because I need to get this up asap (have programmers that need 'trimmed' databases that will fit in MSDE and I cannot move the files to the server (and SQL Server) until I can connect, I'll offer 400 pts.
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Hey all.

I never had this problem before, but then again, I haven't installed w2k3 in a year or so.  I cannot remote desktop into my w2k3 server.  I've installed IIS and anything remotely connected with Remote Desktop Connection, but I still cannot RDC in.  The server is a workgroup, and no AD installed.  Any step-by-step help to enable this would be appreciated.

I *can* ping the server just fine.  I *can* RDC to other servers on my network...

Because I need to get this up asap (have programmers that need 'trimmed' databases that will fit in MSDE and I cannot move the files to the server (and SQL Server) until I can connect, I'll offer 400 pts.

I'm having a problem enabling RDC on my w2k3 server...

Windows Server 2003 was based on Windows XP and was released in four editions: Web, Standard, Enterprise and Datacenter. It also had derivative versions for clusters, storage and Microsoft’s Small Business Server. Important upgrades included integrating Internet Information Services (IIS), improvements to Active Directory (AD) and Group Policy (GP), and the migration to Automated System Recovery (ASR).