Setting Up

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Terminal Services was suggested to me and I'm a novice.

Is it possible to set up Terminal Services so that the
remote user is seen as if he is on the network? In other
words, I need the remote user to be able to use his
computer at home as if he were in the building using the
computer at his desk.

Can Terminal Services be configured to let this happen or
is it always going to only provide a "snapshot" of the
server. We can't copy files from the server to the remote
user's computer, the remote user can't access his email
(no Exchange Server, Microsoft Mail) and we really don't
want anyone using the server as a workstation.

HELP?

Matt

 

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Archived from groups: microsoft.public.windowsnt.terminalserver.setup (More info?)

using TS is like sitting at a workstation or the server itself and
working - for all intents and purposes the work is being done at the
server. For example your user at home logs in and get a remote desktop
that looks like the server's desktop, less any restrictions you apply
(no access to accounting software lets say). He can use his
spreadsheets and word and get his email - his My Documents actually
exists on the server at the office, as does his email. You can load any
email package on you wish - you could use pegasus or eudora.

If you allow mapping of client drives - the remote station can move
files from the office to his/her own disks.

It's very flexible.

Rick