Easy terminal server question

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I do not know how to connect to win2k professional workstation from my win2k
server. I setup the account property right. Do I need to install anything on
the professional workstation in order to connect? I feel I am missing
something. Please help with as much details as possible since I am new to
this.
 
I was told you can do that so you can interact with the user to helpdesk
management. How about the other way around how can I do that?
 
If you want to interact with the Windows 2000 Pro desktop, you
need a 3th party utility like pcAnywhere, VNC or use NetMeeting.

What you *can* do is interact with the user session, when both you
and the user have a connection to a Terminal Server. From within
your TS session, you can "shadow" the users TS session. Is that
what you want to do? Do you have a Terminal Server running?

320191 - HOW TO: Use the SHADOW Command to Remotely Monitor an
Active Session of Another User in Windows 2000 Terminal Services
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=320191
 
Like I mentioned before, I am knew to this. I thought you can access and
interact with a 2k user through terminal server since I saw on the user
property (on 2k active directory) under terminal services profile and Remote
control tap.

My goal is to be able to solve many problems by interacting with the user
from my machine rather than physically going there.
 
Yes, that property of the user account enables remote control of
the users *terminal server session*. If your users are working in
a terminal server environment, then that is probably what you
want, and it works for all clients, no matter what the OS on their
workstation is.
But if your users have a normal desktop environment, i.e they work
on their local workstations and do not access a Terminal Server
for applications, then this is not going to help you.

Remote Desktop was build into Windows XP, so if you have a client
running Windows XP, you can remote control their desktop without
problems. But Windows 2000 Pro simply does not have this feature
build-in.
 
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