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laurens
Asked: 2009-12-06 10:26:21 +0800 CST

Locked myself out of windows server - no user has remote access anymore

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I never thought I would be that unfocused but apparently I did... I disabled the Administrator user and created a new user with password. Unfortunatly I forgot to add this user to the remote access users group. Now I cannot login anymore to this server, which is 1500 miles away, btw. Luckily (?) we have other servers in the subnet.

I tried accessing it via regedit -> connect to remote computer; but I couldn't connect to the server with the credentials of the new (and only) user.

They are all Windows 2003 R2 Servers.

Thanks in advance!!

windows-server-2003

1 Answers

  1. I would attempt to make a connection to the servers admin$ share with the newly created credentials and then use compmgmt.msc to add the user to the necessary group to allow remote desktop connections.

    1. From the comment prompt, run net use \ \ {ServerName}\admin$ /user:{ServerName}{NewlyCreatedUsername}
    2. Enter the password for the new user
    3. Run compmgmt.msc
    4. Right-click on Computer Management (Local), click Connect to another computer
    5. Type the name of the server, click OK
    6. Add the newly created user to the Remote Desktop Users group

    You should then be able to connect to the server.

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