terminal services

[VBVines]

I am getting a message that says my temporary ts license is about to expire. I have a windows 2000 domain and this 2003 server is just a member server. I thought 2 license's came with the server for admin puposes. It does for w/2000 server. Or at least I have never bought any TS licenses for the w/2000 server and I am not getting any dialog boxes that are telling me that my license is expiring. I just need the two for me and my administrator. Maybe I configured it wrong or something.

aspvbwannab

 

[Raul102801]

I think that for the two management accounts you don't have to set up terminal services. If you did set the server up as a terminal server it will run for I think 60 or 90 days and then you need to buy licenses and setup a licensing server. Just for the 2 default accounts you don't have to set terminal services.
Hope this helps.

 

[ShackDaddy]

As long as both of your accounts are members of the domain admins group (or local admins on the TermServer) you shouldn't have a problem. If you get locked out, try using the Add/Remove Programs tool to remove Terminal Services and readd it again, making sure that you are running it in Administration mode and not Application mode.

ShackDaddy

 

[VBVines]

Thanks, I am not sure where I go to change it to run in admin mode vs app mode.

aspvbwannab

 

[ShackDaddy]

It's a choice you make when you go to install the service using the Add/Remove Windows Component applet. I think that maybe Terminal Services is installed out-of-the-box in admin mode on Windows 2003 Server but not on Windows 2000.

ShackDaddy

 

[ascotta]

Correct, out of the box it plays admin mode, so if you have a TS service, then you have it in APP mode. You want to remove that.

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