Remote Desktop across domains

[lordrich]

Hi,
I'm needing users to log into a windows 2003 server which is a member of one domain on a windows 2000 Domain Controler but have them use their username/passwords from a second domain where they already have accounts.
How do I trust the accounts on the second domain for Remote Desktop permissions on the Windows 2003 domain member?

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Richard Kirkcaldy

 

[Davetoo]

You have to establish a trust between the two domains.

I'm Certifiable, not certified.
It just means my answers are from experience, not a book.

 

[markdmac]

If both domains are part of the same forest then you should just need to add the users (or better a group) into the servers LOCAL Remote Desktop Users group.

All windows 2000 Active Directory trusts are transitive by default with trusts existing between parents and children. Transitive trusts do not exist between children even if they are of the same parent. Transitive trusts extend up and down through parents to children to grandchildren and so on. Administrators may create explicit trusts between any two domains.


I hope you find this post helpful. Please let me know if it was.

Regards,

Mark